[postgis-devel] current_parser_check_flags

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Paul Ramsey wrote:

> Except you say the checks are now 100% enforced in 1.5...
> Oh, and we relaxed the parser over time because people were getting
> i-can-put-it-in-but-cant-get-it-out errors...
> Double oh, probably we aren't seeing more bug reports because most of
> the people loading junk data were loading them through the shape
> loader and the wkb parser still has the checks in place.
> Hum hum hum. Regina, keeper of the torch of consistency?
> P.

I think the answer here would be "don't worry about it too much", as I 
suspect any behaviour that you come up with in your tests is going to be 
a lot more sane than what is in there already ;)


ATB,

Mark.

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