[postgis-devel] PostGIS 1.4 RC1 vote

[Paragon Corporation]

No I'm saying we never claimed to and even our documentation says we don't

http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/ch04.html#id3063602

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Cave-Ayland
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 4:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] PostGIS 1.4 RC1 vote

Paragon Corporation wrote:

> I really think the 212 can wait.  Its something that isn't even
documented.
> That can really wait till 1.4.1.  Remember we have a 1.4.1 and this 
> would be a bug fix so can fit nicely in there.

So you're saying that even though we now claim to support compound curves
within curved polygons, we should put a release that can't even store and
retrieve one of these geometries?! I'm not asking for us to 100% proof check
everything for 1.4.0, but as a bare minimum we must be able to support
storage and retrieval of the basic geometry.

> I feel kind of the same about 210 (since I'm pretty sure we've had 
> this problem for a really long time -- it might have been a change in 
> PostgreSQL or something else that makes this more apparent thought).  
> Though 210 is more of a serious issue since it does cause crashes 
> under unpredicatable circumstances especially in 64-bit.

Both of these of errors are caused by bad memory accesses (I know, because I
spent a lot of time fixing these in 1.3.6 as a result of the torture test
results). Just because the bad access doesn't manage to crash on your
particular platform/architecture on that particular attempt, doesn't mean it
will be harmless on another combination of platform/architecture or won't
fail at random points later within a longer transaction.


ATB,

Mark.

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