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

[strk at refractions.net]

Oops... sorry, it was Centroid(), not getBoundary.
Boundary(GEOMETRYCOLLECTION) actually throws an IllegalArgumentException.
It is intended to return a point, but can't on EMPTY geom.

--strk;

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:13:58PM -0500, Carl Anderson wrote:
> 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?.
> >
> > 
> >
> 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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