[postgis-devel] Re: Documentation Geometry Processing

[Kevin Neufeld]

I don't recall what we decided ... I don't think it really matter where 
it ends up.

Interestingly, DB2 chose to put it in the "Functions that create new 
geometries with different space configurations", but that name is a 
little long for me :)

http://db2.mi.hdm-stuttgart.de/db2help/help/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.spatial.topics.doc/doc/csbp4196.html

I hear what you're saying ... the function returns a newly constructed 
geometry ... thus could be classified as a constructor ... but there are 
many other functions that also return a geometry that we didn't put there.

Personally, I think I would keep your Geometry Processing Functions 
section with ST_Intersection and add ST_SymDifference, ST_Difference, 
ST_Union, ST_Centroid, and ST_PointOnSurface, etc.  :) I just looked at 
the 1.3.3 docs ... these are all the functions listed there.. funny.  I 
guess the division is somewhat natural after all.

-- Kevin

Obe, Regina wrote:
> Did we decide we were going to combine the Geometry Processing and 
> Outputs sections of old into one?  I just moved over ST_Intersection, 
> and had created a new section, but then it occurred to me afterward it 
> should probably be located in the same place as ST_Union and ST_Collect?
> 
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