[postgis-devel] Z() and M() semantics (was: M-Accessors)

[strk at refractions.net]

M() is already in the 1.1 branch.

BTW, what about making Z() and M() return NULL
rather then 0 for points w/out the requested dimension ?

I think NULL is the correct semantic, but nobody answered in September:

http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-devel/2005-September/001577.html

--strk;

On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:27:05AM +0100, Alex Mayrhofer wrote:
> All,
> 
> is there a specific reason why there is no M() accessor for geometries? Is 
> that not part of the OGC specs, or are there technical reasons for this?
> 
> I'd really love to see that in 1.0.5, if that's trivial enough (btw, there 
> are some copy/paste artifacts in the comments at lwgeom_ogc.c:607/646 
> mentioning always "X").
> 
> thanks
> 
> alex
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