[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #1964: Regression in ST_StartPoint()

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#1964: Regression in ST_StartPoint()
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  Reporter:  pramsey    |       Owner:  pramsey      
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  closed       
  Priority:  medium     |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.2
 Component:  postgis    |     Version:  2.0.x        
Resolution:  duplicate  |    Keywords:               
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Comment(by robe):

 An exception IS BETTER.  It too me at least an hour to track down why my
 tiger geocoder was working in 1.5 and returning null points for everything
 in 2.0.  If a simple error was thrown that said "Only works with
 linestraings" , that time owuld have been reduced to less than 5 minutes.

 If you are going to have a breaking change, break hard not silently.  The
 only thing worse than an error is the wrong answer you are expecting to be
 right.

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