[postgis-devel] 1.5.3?

[Paragon Corporation]

I'd go with 1 too.

Thanks,
Regina 

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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 2:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] 1.5.3?

Agreed Paul, there be dragons. Error is the right response IMHO.

Chris

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 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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