[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #2051: ST_AsGeoJSON printing too many digits

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#2051: ST_AsGeoJSON printing too many digits
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 Reporter:  strk     |       Owner:  pramsey      
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium   |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.2
Component:  postgis  |     Version:  2.0.x        
 Keywords:           |  
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Comment(by colivier):

 In a GIS common world we deal with 1e-2 to 1e10.

 1e300 seems useless/overkill, but obviously must not lead to a crash,
 so scientific notation appears as a nice workaround/answer,
 without having to compute exact memory to allocate for coordinates.

 Indeed, not documented as not a real world feature.


 (Same use case with 1e-300 from my point of view too)

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