[postgis-devel] strategy about empty

[Nicklas Avén]

I have looked a little at this #294 thing about empty geometries cases
 
I think some strategy is needed to manage that one because it is big and will need a lot of different discussions I can imagine.
I have looked through a lot of the functions of today, what they give with empty geometries and found some inconsistencies for example:
select ST_NumPoints('POLYGON EMPTY')  returns nothing, while
select ST_NPoints('POLYGON EMPTY') returns 0

I think we in the end will need a matrix with the behavior in different cases with different versions. 
Should that be a part of documentation or wiki?
 
/Nicklas
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