[postgis-devel] Recognizing "kind" of geometry

[Paul Ramsey]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:

> I'm having troubles finding what's the actual rationale
> of this proposal. Let's put the issues of accurately
> determining EMPTY'ness of geometry on a side.
> Where is problem in determining if a GEOMERYCOLLECTION
> is mixed or homogeneous?

Agreed. And more to the point, client software probably isn't going to
be able to ingest GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POLYGON(...)), so correctly
flagging it as "areal" won't really help anyone.

P