[postgis-devel] WKB type

strk at refractions.net strk at refractions.net
Fri Sep 10 08:52:57 PDT 2004


On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 08:21:59AM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> strk at refractions.net wrote:
[...]
> >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)
> 
> That's my understanding, and Dave's hex-wkb-plus-extras is the canonical 
> form, hooray no more coordinate drift.

Excellent.
The stuff is all there, except for the asbinary(geom, endiannes)
which is missing (last step to the end of functions porting).

--strk;



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