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<P><FONT SIZE=2>hmm I use those functions in some code I have. So that would be kind of breaking in a major way for me.<BR>
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Besides there is no counterpart to those particular functions in an obvious sense like _ST_Intersects<BR>
so some of those functions I consider a bit fuzzy as to whether they should be considered private except they are not documented.<BR>
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From: postgis-devel-bounces@postgis.refractions.net on behalf of Paul Ramsey<BR>
Sent: Mon 1/19/2009 11:43 PM<BR>
To: PostGIS Development Discussion<BR>
Subject: [postgis-devel] Public/Private API, ST_*/_ST_*<BR>
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Unfortunately, when we function re-named things for 1.2, things got a <BR>
little out-of-hand, and every single function ended up with an ST_* <BR>
sibling. I'd like to back away from that a bit now, and flip private <BR>
functions into _ST_* space. Some examples are st_geom_accum, <BR>
st_unite_garray, etc. I'd like to do it without leaving the old <BR>
variants around. This is "breaking", but since the functions are <BR>
private, hopefully not actually breaking.<BR>
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P.<BR>
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Paul Ramsey<BR>
OpenGeo - <A HREF="http://opengeo.org">http://opengeo.org</A><BR>
Putting the "Po" in "PostGIS".<BR>
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