[postgis-devel] r15336 - #3589, Orientation checking and forcing fuctions

Sandro Santilli strk at kbt.io
Fri Mar 17 06:41:20 PDT 2017


On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 09:31:33AM -0400, Daniel Baston wrote:

> One way to think of it is that
> the function is telling you whether all of the polygons in the input are
> oriented CCW.  If you have zero polygons, then all of the polygons are
> oriented CCW.

Ok, this is convincing.

> Do you want to explain a bit about why you don't like it?

I didn't like the wording, if you can express it as you did above,
it'll be fine for me. So basically:

- Returns true for all non-polygonal
+ Returns true if all polygonal components are oriented CCW

Something along those lines...

--strk;



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