[postgis-devel] Canonical binary form AND WKB

[Paul Ramsey]

Markus Schaber wrote:
> 
> The most dangerous thing wr/t extending WKB acceptance is that once we
> get such a collision and thus change the interpretation of
> GeometryFromWKB(bytea) to use the new OGC WKB spec, old clients that
> rely on the magic will fail. And if we have to tell the Programmers that
> they should not rely on this behaviour, it is better to not accept it in
> the first place.

Perhaps the answer is to become an OGC member and get the spec updated 
with our definition. :)