[postgis-devel] Exceptions vs. WARNINGS from GEOS functions

[strk]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:20:06AM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Quietly screwing up seems very dangerous to me...

Uhm... would be a NULL return.
It means "I dunno", in sql terms.
And usually it's viral (if lower-level functions do not know higher
level ones will inherit that ignorance with the NULL bubbling up to
final user).

Maybe it needs more research on the "maybe" part ?

--strk;

> 
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:46 AM, strk <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> > What do you think about changing all GEOS wrappers
> > so they elog(WARNING) and return NULL rather than
> > elog(ERROR) and thus break transactions ?
> >
> > Easy vote & go ?
> >
> > --strk;
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