[postgis-devel] POINT EMPTY in WKB

[Paul Ramsey]

On 2010-12-07, at 12:38 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:

> Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
>> It's legal and it's a whole category of empty shit I am not handling
>> correctly. I only recognize the case of
>> MULTIPOINT EMPTY
>> and MULTIPOINT (...stuff...) is assumed to be real stuff.
>> GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POINT EMPTY, POINT EMPTY) will be picked up though.
>> Oy vey.
>> P.
> 
> I suspect that the answer to this can be found in the ISO spec WKT BNF representation - or at least it should be ;)

It is in the BBC, and it is legal, and my current parser does not read it.

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> Mark.
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