[postgis-devel] 1.5.3?

[Paul Ramsey]

It's not clear to me any/many people are pushing through Inf
geometries. So we have

1 - throw ERROR or
2 - return NULL/Empty geometry

I'll throw my vote in for option 1.

P

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> On 24/05/11 17:20, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>
>> Well, I'm going to apply his Inf-blocking patch, and I'll carry the
>> issue over to Proj.4 land.
>> P.
>
> I think we need a bit more discussion on what the behaviour should be before
> applying though. At the moment I don't have a feel for what the standard
> behaviour in this scenario should be (especially with respect to existing
> tools) - should we throw an ERROR and abort the transaction? Return an
> empty/NULL geometry and emit a WARNING?
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.
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