[postgis-devel] WKT Raster: Back from RT_ to ST_

Kevin Neufeld kneufeld at refractions.net
Thu Apr 2 10:47:36 PDT 2009


Pierre Racine wrote:
  > One of the argument against was that ST_ stands for "standard" (is this
> right?) and that (surely) none of WKT Raster is standard. But many
> (most?) PostGIS function are also not standard and they nevertheless
> have the ST_ prefix.
> 

I thought ST_ stood for "Spatial Type" ... or was it "Super Terrific"? :)
-- Kevin



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