[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #1287: Drop of "gist_geometry_ops" broke a few clients

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#1287: Drop of "gist_geometry_ops" broke a few clients
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 Reporter:  strk     |       Owner:  pramsey      
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium   |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.0
Component:  postgis  |     Version:  trunk        
 Keywords:           |  
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Comment(by robe):

 strk -- I'm all for not encouraging it.  In the docs I changed , I didn't
 see any mention of ops or ops_2d. I added the use of ops_nd.  That said
 haven't finished going thru the docs.

 I'm not so much concerned about those who have compensated, as having to
 rip out a lot of code (all the ops have to change, my upgrade process is
 screwed up etc. -  so I guess when I say those I mean ME).  That said I
 think more people are annoyed about indecisiveness than any particular
 decision we make, as they've already started their development to be ready
 when we are.


 We all prefer the new naming since its clearer, it will make obvious all
 those software trying to create tables with the old antiquated name which
 we'll desperately want to get rid of in the future, we've already sewn the
 seed, let's not pull out the plant so late in the game (I've done a lot of
 restores of databases on 2.0 I've had for ages and haven't run into an
 issue with this).  Speaking of indecisiveness, can we please decide on
 what we will have for unknown, that is irritating people too -- not what
 we will decide, but when.  I'll put a vote on that on the table.  At this
 point I don't care so much just that we come to a  conclusion.

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