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

[Mark Leslie]

strk wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:47:36AM -0700, Kevin Neufeld wrote:
>> 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"? :)
> 
> Whatever it stands for, I belive it was dictated by ISO.
> Postgis hackers liked it and used for non-ISO-specified things too,
> which I've never been very comfortable with.
> 
> In my opinion the 'ST_' thingy should have only been 'aliases' for ISO
> compatibility, keeping unprefixed names for everything (going up
> to a schema, if it was for namespacing).

This actually makes the most sense when you consider that there are 
inherent incompatibilities between the definitions of some few ISO, 
SF/SQL and postgis specific functions (asBinary for example).