[postgis-devel] Recognizing "kind" of geometry

[strk]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 02:46:17PM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 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.

Client software unable to inject GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POLYGON(...))
won't use the information returned by the function I'm proposing.

But a client software able to do that could.


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