Point Attribute?
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Has there been any discussion of creating a point attribute? This would be an attribute that can store the two decimal numbers that make up a location like the POINT datatype in MySQL and PostgreSQL. This would be very useful for finding a nearby restaurant or dentist for the reservation system. It would also make storing, retrieving, searching locations from the database more efficient.
I know I can use text attribute with validation, but it would be useful to search for places based on location in the database.
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If this isn't being considered. Could you point me to the files that would need to be modified in order to make it happen? I'm having a hard time understanding how attributes are created and stored in the db.