[postgis-devel] [PATCH] Binary IO support for geography type

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 25/02/11 15:47, Elvis Pranskevichus wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm currently working on adding support for postgis to py-postgresql and
> stumbled upon a fact that geography type does not support binary IO, i.e.
> send/receive functions are unimplemented.  I attached rough patches to add
> said functions to IO geography through WKB.  I'm also wondering if there is a
> deeper reason for the send/receive omission -- implementation is trivial
> enough.
>
> Thanks,
>
>                                      Elvis

Hi Elvis,

Thanks for the patch :)  I'm not exactly sure why the binary I/O 
functions weren't implemented, possibly because there was some 
discussion as to the final format at the time.

Probably the best thing to do would be to create an issue on PostGIS 
trac, upload the patches there and assign the ticket to pramsey.


ATB,

Mark.

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