[postgis-devel] Removing: postgis_transform_geometry

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 01:12:54PM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> While doing some renovation on transform, I found this old function.
> 
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION postgis_transform_geometry(geometry,text,text,int)
> 
> It appears disused and unloved, probably was an old testing function
> Dave used to do transformations prior to the hooking in of the
> spatial_ref_sys table. May I kill it?

I've just used it extensively on a project where proj4 itself
was falling short. It was extremely useful to implment chained
transforms, working around the lack of this feature of proj:
http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ticket/136

So I'd be -1 on this. Would make PostGIS poorer.

--strk; 

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