[mapserver-dev] call for vote on rfc 48

[Daniel Morissette]

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Since there is only one geometry for a mapserver shape, isn't
> including it as a "parameter" sort of misleading? I'm thinking that
> postgis users will be invariably tempted to write "the_geom" or
> whatever their goemetry column happens to be named.
> 

I think it's been included so that in the future nested calls such as

   difference(geom,buffer(geom,10))

can be implemented without breaking compatibility.

Daniel
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