[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #267: Use of GUC to determine default (sphere/spheroid) calculation for geography

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#267: Use of GUC to determine default (sphere/spheroid) calculation for geography
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 Reporter:  robe         |       Owner:  pramsey      
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  low          |   Milestone:  postgis 2.0.0
Component:  postgis      |     Version:  trunk        
 Keywords:               |  
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 I think we had discussed the use of defining GUCs at least for some other
 PostGIS thing since PostgreSQL allows modules to load custom GUCs.  Forget
 what we were thinking for before to use it for, and forget why we decided
 against it.

 It would seem that that would be the ideal way of allowing people to
 control which measurement behavior they would prefer for the ST_Area,
 ST_Distance etc. functions and we could default this behavior to sphere as
 we are doing currently.

 This we may need to table till postgis 2.0.

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