State explicitly that the coordinates in our geometric data types are float8. Also explain that polygons store their bounding box. While here, fix the table of geometric data types to show type "line"'s size correctly: it's 24 bytes not 32. This has somehow escaped notice since that table was made in 1998. Per suggestion from Sebastian Skałacki. The size error seems important enough to justify back-patching. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/172000045661.706.1822177575291548794@wrigleys.postgresql.org
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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