[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #944: typmod support for PostGIS geometry

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#944: typmod support for PostGIS geometry
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 Reporter:  robe         |       Owner:  pramsey      
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium       |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.0
Component:  postgis      |     Version:  trunk        
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment(by robe):

 ugly hack. ugly hack. ugly hack. Ugly is in the eye of the beholder, but
 pain is felt by everyone :)
 Besides that's why I'm going for an ST_geometry_columns.  That is what
 SQL/MM says it should be called.  So let's call the pure solution that and
 then perhaps one day we can deprecate geometry_columns and then remove it.

 I also don't want an old thing AddGeometryColumns camoflaging a new way.
 If we are going to push people to do it the easy way CREATE TABLE ...
 geometry(POINT,..);

 Why confuse them with having the old do the new.  At some point we might
 want to deprecate AddgeometryColumns so its best people not rely on it to
 do a new thing.

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