The Box type is the oldest non-linear type in the Postgres system.
We used it as the template for extensibility in the original system
about thirty years ago. We had R-trees for box indexing. If you want
fuzzy box matching, that seems possible with R-trees and some creativity
by say matching
Stanislav Kelvich writes:
> I've faced an issue with Box type comparison that exists almost for a five
> years.
Try twenty-five years. The code's been like that since Berkeley.
> That can be fixed by b-tree equality for boxes, but we need some
> decisions there.
The problem with inventing
