[postgis-devel] Deprecate ST_MapAlgebraExpr and ST_MapAlgebraFct

[Bborie Park]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 04:00:36PM -0700, dustymugs wrote:
>> On 10/10/2012 03:32 PM, Pierre Racine wrote:
>
>> > That means no support for people not comfortable with writing a custom function...
>>
>> True.  But maybe they just needed a reason to get into writing their own
>> functions.
>
> Could a way be found to allow for inline functions ?
> Basically a way to accept function-or-expression as the argument
> and convert the expression into a function internally.
>

Converting expressions to temporary functions are doable.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-04/msg01178.php

The question then becomes, should the expression be using keywords,
e.g. [rast1]?  Or should it look like the code one would expect in a
function?

> I'd like to see the number of signatures going down...
>

Same here.

-bborie