[postgis-devel] force_sfs

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 01:27:01PM +0200, Oliver Courtin wrote:

> > Aren't TIN,TRIANGALE,POLYHEDRALSURFACE inSFS 1.2 ?
> > ref: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2010-October/010363.html
> 
> They are, and that's why i'm not fully happy with the name
> of the function.
> 
> ST_ForceSFS_11 sound better ?

Ugly :)

What's the real use of this ? Is it only for GEOS ?
Does it need to be exposed to SQL at all ?

Note that we have an st_force_collection already
which could work for TIN and POLYHEDRALSURFACE
(would need to be renamed as well) so it really
only seems to be an issue for TRIANGLE.

--strk;