[postgis-devel] More dump comments

[Obe, Regina]

I'm wondering if its because its got a , in there.  Though I would think the
{} would be sufficient.  Could be just a display artifact in psql I suppose.


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From: postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net on behalf of Mark Cave-Ayland
Sent: Fri 2/27/2009 12:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] More dump comments
 
Obe, Regina wrote:

> Mark or Tom,
> 
> Okay I did this for 1.4 but have not done it for 1.3 yet.  We don't
> support 8.0 in 1.3 either correct.

Since 1.3 is in bug-fix only mode, and it's not critical, I wouldn't 
back-patch it at all.

> In inspecting the torture test, I noticed something strange with the
> dump results that I don't think have anything to do with my changes.
> though I'll have to revert back to be sure.
> 
> When dumping geometry collections -- it dumps out like this
> 
>                      ?column?                      
> ---------------------------------------------------
>  ST_Dump GCSet3D: Start Testing GEOMETRYCOLLECTION
> (1 row)
> 
> BEGIN
>  
> st_dump
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----
>  
> ("{1,1}",01010000A0E610000000000000000024C000000000000049400000000000000
> 040) 
> 
> But for MULTIPOLYGONs and single geom constructs, we don't have double
> quotes.  Why do we have quotes here.  Is that even legal? (or is that
> part of what Bless does)
> 
> Below is a sample of a multi
> 
>                       ?column?                       
> -----------------------------------------------------
>  ST_Dump MultiLineSet: Start Testing MULTILINESTRING
> (1 row)
> 
> BEGIN
>                                               st_dump
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
>  
> ({1},0102000020E61000000200000000000000000024C00000000000004440000000000
> 000444000000000000024C0)

Hmmm. Not sure at the moment without digging into the code...


ATB,

Mark.

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