[postgis-devel] Parser/Emitter Changeover

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Paul Ramsey wrote:

> The changeover has now happened to the new parser and emitter for WKB/WKT.
> 
> All occurrences in ./loader and ./postgis have been flipped to the new versions.

Cool bananas :)

> Occurrences in cunit have been left in place for now, so that
> backwards compatibility tests can still run for a while.
> 
> My only concern while fitting them in was that the to_wkt and to_wkb
> functions lack an UNPARSER object to drop more verbose error messaging
> into. That said, the verbose errors were there mostly for things like
> validity checks on the output, which were all disabled. So...? Anyhow,
> it's a point of potential improvement.

I think this is worth doing, as it could be useful for a potential 
migration tool that could read geometries and identify those that 
currently invalid (and also provide useful error/position information to 
help the user fix any errors).


ATB,

Mark.

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