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

Sandro Santilli strk at keybit.net
Wed Mar 18 02:23:08 PDT 2015


On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 04:58:50AM +0100, Even Rouault wrote:
> Selon Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>:
> 
> > Thought of two other ways to represent POINT EMPTY when asked for the EWKB:
> >
> > POINT(NaN NaN)
> 
> --> that one at least is "standardized", as being the solution taken by
> GeoPackage.

It's good not to be alone here. +1 for me.
I'm sure it'll make many clients unhappy, but if we never start...
Probably not to be changed in a patch-level release.

--strk;



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