[postgis-devel] Fixed crash on getBoundary('GEOMETRYCOLLECTION EMPTY')

[Carl Anderson]

strk at refractions.net wrote:

>I've fixed a GEOS bug crashing on EMPTYGEOM->getBoundary().
>In postgis, I've handled this situation returning again an
>EMPTY GEOMETRY.
>Do you think NULL is more appropriate?.
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if getBoundary() is supposed to return a Geometry with a lesser dimension
 then dimension 0 - 1 =  -1   ... not valid   so it would be a NULL.

C.

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