[postgis-devel] Issue 65 in postgis: ST_AsGML kills the backend when fed a CIRCULAR STRING

[Courtin Olivier]

On Nov 4, 2008, at 3:05 PM, codesite-noreply at google.com wrote:

> Issue 65: ST_AsGML kills the backend when fed a CIRCULAR STRING
> http://code.google.com/p/postgis/issues/detail?id=65
>
> Comment #1 by mark.cav... at siriusit.co.uk:
> Okay - I've applied a fix for this to 1.3 SVN and trunk. It looks  
> like the ST_AsGML()
> function was trying to inspect geometries by default, rather than  
> throwing an error
> on unknown types like the other ST_As*() functions. Since there is  
> no support for
> types other than the basic OGC types, I've made ST_AsGML() do the  
> same.


Well that fix, remove GeometryCollection support from ST_AsGML:

postgis_reg=# SELECT  
ST_AsGML(geometryfromtext('GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POINT(1 1))'));
ERROR:  geometry_to_gml2: 'GeometryCollection' geometry type not  
supported


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Olivier