[postgis-devel] [raster] ST_Binary semantic

[Bborie Park]

>
> Turns out it is an important issue, ticket reported:
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/2217
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

This one is strange.  Should ST_AsBinary be returning a faithful
representation of the raster in the database, which would include the
out-db path?  Or should ST_AsBinary be returning a complete -- and
different -- representation, including the out-db data instead of the
path?

I've read through the IRC logs and am fine with adding a new function
so that ST_AsBinary's present behavior persists.  Any ideas what this
function would be called?  This new function will be needed in GDAL
when it supports out-db rasters (it currently does not).

-bborie