[postgis-devel] SummaryStats

[Paul Ramsey]

You already have to parse it to reuse. No change there.
P.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Pierre Racine
<Pierre.Racine at sbf.ulaval.ca> wrote:
> Then you have to parse to reuse?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 5:03 PM
>> To: PostGIS Development Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] SummaryStats
>>
>> No, I'm referring to my example below... where the numbers have little labels on
>> them in the canonical output. Some kind of key/value structure. Far more
>> human-friendly.
>> Pierre's trick works to get something pretty but the canonical form can be
>> human readable so why not make it so.
>>
>> P.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:56 PM, dustymugs <dustymugs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 03/06/2012 01:46 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Raster seems to be full of these composite types, which are nice
>> >> enough for returning stuff, but I have a problem with the canonical
>> >> forms. Why is SummaryStats so anonymous?
>> >>
>> >> (65364,210241.004791319,3.21646479394345,,0,38.9035530090332)
>> >>
>> >> Why not something with tags so I can see what these things are?
>> >>
>> >> [sum=65364, min=210241.004791319, max=, etc]
>> >>
>> >> Could even go the JSON route.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Paul,
>> >
>> > When you say tagged, are you talking about something like the output
>> > of PostGIS_Full_version()?
>> >
>> > -bborie
>> >
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