[postgis-users] Intersects with empty boxes error

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, Daniel,

Daniel FAIVRE schrieb:
> Ok, thank you, but:
> 1) It worked on previous versions.

Well - most fixed bugs describe a behaviour that "worked on previous
versions", but was never intended to work this way.

> 2) geometryfromtext('BOX3D(10 10, 10 10)', -1) does NOT fail to create a
> geometry, even if the box collapses to a point. Should it allow creating
> "geos unvalid geometries" ?

The problem is that geos validity check is very expensive on complicated
geometrys (polygons with hundreds of thousands of vertices). Enforcing
those checks on every geometry input (that is supposed to get no invalid
geometries) would slow down the whole thing.

If you need it, you can use isvalid(geometry), and even add an
appropriate check constraint to your tables to allow storage of valid
geometries.

HTH,
Markus

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