[postgis-devel] About BOXES

[Paul Ramsey]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:
>>> Backward compatiblity issue: what does ST_Extent() return? The problem
>>> is if people are parsing the output, they expect whatever it returns
>>> to have a text representation of 'BOX()' (the old box2d
>>> representation).

Oh, hai, I have the answer to my question: because box2d is no longer
*used* anywhere, I can re-define it as a double type, and st_extent
can go back to using box2d as a return type, and the old syntax can
remain.

P.