[postgis-devel] typmod order

[Paul Ramsey]

I'm paying with typmod right now, and wonder what we think the
expected order of typmod arguments should be?

  geometry(srid, type, ndims)
  geometry(type, srid, ndims) ?

The reason I ask is because we can allow defaults by omitting an argument

  geometry(srid)
  geometry(srid, type)

which implies the most likely / frequent restriction should be first.
Which boils down to:

are people more likely to want to restrict type but not srid, or srid
but not type?

(I'm playing with this in the context of "geography" but I assume
similar concepts are going to apply. Based on the SQL server type, I
think it makes sense to have an associated SRID even for geography,
though the default srid for geography would be 4326 while the default
for geometry would be 0)

P.