[postgis-devel] POINT EMPTY in database dumps (EWKB)

[Paul Ramsey]

http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/3031

I didn’t anticipate this *particular* problem when hacking the POINT EMPTY solution (which is to emit MULTIPOINT EMPTY (really, a WKB multipoint with zero members)).

The only solution I can see would be to add an arbitrary additional WKB type number for the extended WKB format and use that exclusively to handling POINT EMPTY. That would allow dump/restore to work. For anyone who is requesting extended WKB and consuming it though, it would be a breaking change as this (surprise!) new WKB type number shows up in the stream.

Thoughts?

P
 

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