[gdal-dev] Proposed changed to solve inconsistant spatial filtering for null or empty geometries

Ari Jolma ari.jolma at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 04:15:56 PDT 2017


Even Rouault kirjoitti 01.11.2017 klo 13:02:
>
> Hi,
>
> Nyall Dawson pointed to me in
>
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5501#issuecomment-340934947 about a 
> weird behaviour of OGR spatial filtering regarding null and empty 
> geometries.
>
...
>
> Any thought ?
>

Yes. Deep ones. If something is 'empty', is it 'a thing'? Can 'nothing' 
exist? Weird things should be expected to behave weirdly.

I would say such things should disappear, i.e., the PostGIS behavior is 
logical.

Ari

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