[postgis-devel] lwgeom parser robustness and niceness

[Carl Anderson]

strk wrote:

> Carl, you were right, it was the error function ....
> I've fixed it. Now you get ERRORs instead of traps.
> 
> Also, I've unleashed the parser to accept miXeD case.
> 
> A rimaning issue is about wheter to accept (MULTI)POINT(),
> (MULTI)LINESTRING(), (MULTI)POLYGON(), GEOMETRYCOLLECTION()
> as empty geometries... I think that would be nice, are there
> comments ?
> 

I am against it becuase it would tend to create in users minds the 
concept of a finer grain of null geometry

sort of a null point vs a null polygon vs ...
when really there exists only a null geometry super class




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