[postgis-devel] Hey, you broke... (SRID=0)

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:03:14PM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Well, it regresses...
> While I like having SRID=0, I have the worry that this particular
> change-for-changes sake will rebound on us poorly. It's done, but I'm
> waffling. Knowing that, at a minimum, our own Java components embed
> this backward compatibility issue is sobering. How many others also
> do? Many, I'm sure.

I suggest setting up a wiki page listing all the breakage cases
we may think of. I'm pretty dumb in that I can't see any serious
compatibility problem.

Didn't check why java hard-coded the -1, for example.

BTW, does allowing -1 mean we need signed SRID in typmod and thus
half the MAXALLOWEDSRID ?

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