Re:Postgres geography type is not limited to Earth
by askvictor on Sunday August 20, 2017 @09:16PM
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Indeed; does that mean such a database would need to run an n-body simulation to determine where one object is compared to another at a given time?
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Re:Postgres geography type is not limited to Earth
by Demiurge on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:51AM
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That would require arbitrary telemetry and possibly non-deterministic solution, or something like SPICE(https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/toolkit.html) which is a bit too far outside of 'database' domain.