[postgis-devel] SVN trunk parser modifications stage 2

[David Fuhry]

Obe, Regina wrote:
> Yap that's what I was expecting, but what I was thinking is if the
> natural behavior is to not check the validity of the geometry, then you
> can load all the invalid geometries to your hearts content :)

Right, if the default behavior is not to validate, then it will load 
just fine.  But I have been assuming that the default behavior will be 
to validate, since all of Mark's comments point in this direction:

On 2008-10-20, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
 >     0 - No checking; all checks are disabled
 >     1 - OGC level checking; check for minimum numbers of points and
 >         closure of polygons
 >     2 - GEOS level validation; check input geometries are valid as
 >         per the GEOS IsValid() function
 >
 > The first time the parser/unparser is invoked then we check to see if
 > this setting is present; if it is then the current parser check level is
 > set this value. Otherwise a default value of 1 is chosen.

On 2008-10-18, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
 > SELECT postgis_enable_parser_checks()
 >     - This will re-enable ALL checks performed by the parser. Note
 >     that all checks enabled will remain the default.

-Dave