[postgis-devel] ForceRHR doesn't?

[Michael Fuhr]

On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:58:10PM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> It is not clear that there is a function that actually enforces RHR  
> in lwgeom... I know there is supposed to be one in GEOS, but I don't  
> see it getting called anywhere.

lwpoly_forceRHR() in lwpoly.c looks like it's trying to return a
RHR polygon, doesn't it?  That function isn't called from anywhere;
that's what I made lwgeom_forceRHR() call in lieu of lwpoly_reverse().

I'm still wondering if the ptarray_isccw() function that lwpoly_forceRHR()
calls has its return values backwards.

Given a properly working ForceRHR(), you could enforce RHR on a
column with a constraint like the following, no?

ALTER TABLE foo ADD CONSTRAINT geom_rhr CHECK (geom ~= ForceRHR(geom));

Alternatively, you could write a trigger to silently convert the
column to RHR during inserts and updates.

-- 
Michael Fuhr