Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> As an example, contains/contained in are pretty meaningless for two points;
> but it would be very useful to directly support queries like "point is
> contained in box?", "point is contained in circle?" on a point column.

Just as a bit of supporting anecdotal evidence. I ended up storing longitude
and latitude redundantly in my tables as a point and also as a 0-area box just
so I could use the box <contains> box operator because there's no <box>
contains <point> operator.

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greg


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