Not really sure that’s the answer… I’d much rather see work on geodetic edges 
in GEOS

P

> On Jan 21, 2019, at 1:20 PM, Darafei Komяpa Praliaskouski <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> If someone is willing, there is an old Geography Overlays patch that needs 
> lots of love: https://github.com/postgis/postgis/pull/191 
> <https://github.com/postgis/postgis/pull/191>
> 
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 12:13 AM Paul Ramsey <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Jan 21, 2019, at 1:00 PM, Simon Greener <[email protected] 
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > 
> > When a geography is casted to geometry for use in the aggregate form of 
> > ST_Union (or other commands such as ST_Within) is the processing done 
> > assuming the data is projected even when geodetic?
> 
> All processing of geometry make cartesian assumptions. Processing of 
> geography using geography native functions (no casting required) makes 
> spherical assumptions. When you case from geography::geometry you are telling 
> the database “please process this data using cartesian assumptions”. Do we 
> support spherical processing for all (or even many) kinds of operations? No 
> we do not. That’s hard. Could we in the future? Sure, it might happen.
> 
> ATB,
> P
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