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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Just to add to this to make sure I'm following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>For this question:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'>> Also, a bit late in the day, but why the text parameter "geom_name" in these various signatures, instead of automagically finding it in the row?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'>> ?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#888888'>> P<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#888888'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#888888'>Is it ever possible that an MVT row could have more than one geometry column. I assume so. If so I think it might be good to keep the geom_name field though perhaps make it a default option and in that case it picks the first one it finds. Similar to how we do pgsql2shp where you can explicitly set the geometry column or have pgsql2shp do it's thing and just pick the first one it finds.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#888888'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#888888'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#888888'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#888888'>Regina<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Regina Obe [mailto:lr@pcorp.us] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 07, 2017 2:57 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'PostGIS Development Discussion' <postgis-devel@lists.osgeo.org>; 'Björn Harrtell' <bjorn@wololo.org><br><b>Cc:</b> 'Paul Ramsey' <pramsey@cleverelephant.ca><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [postgis-devel] geom_name<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>> </span>We should ask about API changing, I'm sure Regina would say we're done, which effectively means done-for-all-time, since changing public function signatures is basically impossible one they are done.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>> </span>P<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I'm fine with you changing the API now before final 2.4.0 release. I promised no new functions, not no new API changes to new 2.4 functions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I think it would be good to drop the old signature in the postgis_drop_before.sql since some people have already started using the MVT functions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>If it impacts existing code, we should also put in BREAKING CHANGE for postgis -2.4.0 the change so people are warned and know how to change their code if they were using an earlier postgis 2.4.0dev<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Regina<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'>On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Björn Harrtell <<a href="mailto:bjorn.harrtell@gmail.com" target="_blank">bjorn.harrtell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'>Hi Paul,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'>No good reason except that I couldn't find out a deterministic way to find it and put it out of my mind after that. :(<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'>With some guidance I'll be happy to revise the API if it's not too late at this point.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#888888'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#888888'>/Björn<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'>2017-09-07 19:41 GMT+02:00 Paul Ramsey <<a href="mailto:pramsey@cleverelephant.ca" target="_blank">pramsey@cleverelephant.ca</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'>Also, a bit late in the day, but why the text parameter "geom_name" in these various signatures, instead of automagically finding it in the row?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'>?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#888888'>P<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>