PSC, can I re-direct your attention to http://svn.refractions.net/postgis/trunk/doc/rfc/postgis_rfc_03.txt http://svn.refractions.net/postgis/trunk/doc/rfc/postgis_rfc_03_sheet.txt I would not mind doing this before release. There's some bone-headed names in there I'd like to get rid of (st_ prefixes on index functions, etc) P