[postgis-devel] WKB type

[strk at refractions.net]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:50:13AM -0700, David Blasby wrote:
> > Note that current postgis WKB output contains custom 3d extension,
> > and LWGEOM will have the 4d extension.
> 
> LWGEOM currently has WKB support for 2d, 3d, and 4d (written by Ralph Mason).
> 
> dave

I've realized that, thanks.

Anyway, to sum things up new geometry representation (LWGEOM)
will have:

 o WKB binary IO using AsBinary, *FromWKB (smallest binary representation)
 o WKT text IO using AsText, *FromText (most human-readable form)
 o Dave's hexized WKB using default IO  (smallest text representation)

The 'WKB' postgresql datatype will no more be needed,
does it sound Dave ?

--strk;

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