[postgis-users] Geometry problems

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 09:43:31AM -0400, Daniel Baston wrote:
> Plugging the WKT directly into JTS TestBuilder shows that
> equals=false, even if you paste the same WKT for both inputs. The
> geometry is invalid, but I would have expected Geometry.equals() to
> report a correct answer or throw an exception.
> 
> PostGIS 2.2+ should return 'true' in this case, because it does a
> memcmp before ever sending the geometry to GEOSEquals.

Good catch!

Passing invalid geometries to those functions result in undefined
behavior so we cannot call this a bug. But I guess documentation could
be improved to specify the validity requirement of the function.

--strk;