[postgis-devel] WKB conversion

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk
Tue Sep 2 14:54:27 PDT 2008


Mark Leslie wrote:

> This is from ancient memory, but I think that's the flag to control how
> we translate between formats.  This is legacy from the jts connector,
> and allows us to perform the format conversion either properly, or by
> converting first to WKB and then to the JTS or GEOS or PostGIS format
> using each products standard WKB parser.  It was (marginally) more
> reliable in the JTS connector, but with a significant performance hit.

Okay. Given that all of the JTS code has been ripped out of SVN trunk, 
is there any real reason to keep it anymore?


ATB,

Mark.

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