[postgis-devel] st_split(multipolygon,multiline)

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:17:47PM +0200, Rémi Cura wrote:

> Looking at the C code it seems that the split(polygon, line) case is dealed
> with by unioning the boundary of polygon and line with geos, then
> polygonizing with geos, then returning face that are not  in polygon holes.
>  (lwgeom_geos_split.c)
> 
> Any reason it couldn't work with split(multi-polygon, multi-line) ?

I don't see any reason.

> I wrote a plpgsql wrapper to allow this but it is very slow because it
> successively split the input polygon with each part of multi_line.

A patch for doing that in C is welcome.
With regress tests, valgrind-clean unit tests and updated documentation :)

--strk;