[postgis-devel] Canonical binary form AND WKB

[strk at refractions.net]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:47:30PM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 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. :)

That would be the best solution, as it seems to be getting a mess
with all these representation:
WKB, EWKB, HEXEWKB, internal, canonical binary, WKT, EWKT

--strk;

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