[postgis-devel] RE: [postgis-users] Problem with PostGIS 1.0.0 RC1

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, strk,

strk at refractions.net schrieb:

> At this point, to finish with consistency, we might want to
> change geoemtry::text cast to return EWKT instead of HEXWKB.

I'm okay with this, I think this does not hurt.

> So you could do:
>
> 	GeomFromWKB(geometry); <-- autocast to bytea
> 	GeomFromText(geometry); <-- autocast to text (needs (E)WKT to work)

Strange, I cannot imagine any use-case for this, at least in my apps.

I think that both variants would issue parser warnings in GeomFrom*()
when we have a 3D, M or 3D/M geometry?


Happy coding,
Markus
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