[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #2122: [raster] Real extent feature lost after metadata as views

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 07:07:13AM -0800, Bborie Park wrote:

> For example, let us say you have a 100 x 100 raster and you want to
> tile it by 21 x 21...
> 
> raster2pgsql -t 21x21 my100x100raster.tif
> 
> The loader will create 25 tiles with 9 tiles having padding.

 OOOOD    O = full
 OOOOD    D = pad right
 OOOOD    U = pad bottom
 OOOOD    G = pad right and bottom
 UUUUG

Still sounds like an higher level structure to me, not something
to encode in each value. It's like topology-to-geometry.

> As for adding more to the serialized format, I'm hesitant to do so at
> this stage.  When are we allowed to make changes to the serialized
> format?  I was under the impression that it had to be a major version
> change.

Yes, only in major versions, so for 3.0. 

--strk;