[postgis-devel] POINT EMPTY in WKB

Tue Dec 7 00:38:42 PST 2010

Paul Ramsey wrote:

> It's legal and it's a whole category of empty shit I am not handling
> correctly. I only recognize the case of
> 
> MULTIPOINT EMPTY
> 
> and MULTIPOINT (...stuff...) is assumed to be real stuff.
> 
> GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POINT EMPTY, POINT EMPTY) will be picked up though.
> 
> Oy vey.
> 
> P.

I suspect that the answer to this can be found in the ISO spec WKT BNF 
representation - or at least it should be ;)

ATB,

Mark.

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