[postgis-devel] (T) in the manual

[Paragon Corporation]

I don't know why ST_SharedPaths would have that.

It should just be ST_Buffer, ST_Intersection

http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.1/PostGIS_Special_Functions_Index.html#Post
GIS_TypeFunctionMatrix

See the smiley faces.  Not a super big deal.  I've got more important things
to peer review :)
Like developers breaking my windows builds.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandro Santilli [mailto:sandro.santilli at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sandro
Santilli
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 5:16 AM
To: postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org; Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us>
Subject: Re: (T) in the manual

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:24:14AM +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> I've noticed some (T) labels in the manual and wondering what they are.
> There are 3 in reference_processing.xml .. what is it about ?
> 
> Example:
> 
>       <refpurpose>(T) Returns a geometry that represents the shared
portion of geomA and geomB.  The geography implementation
>           does a transform to geometry to do the intersection and then
transform back to WGS84.

Answering myself, thanks to grep:

  Functions with a (T) are not native geodetic functions,
  and use a ST_Transform call to and from geometry to do the operation.

I'm afraid I broke that 8 months ago with
https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/changeset/13291
as there's currently NO such function with that tag.

Aww, if we only had proper peer-review mechanism in place !

That commit removed the (T) tag for ST_Buffer and ST_SharedPaths, I can't
find other function that ever had that tag, since the introduction of that
tag.

The tag itself was introduced 6 years ago by Regina:
https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/changeset/4773

Should we just drop the tag and forget about it ?
Or I guess if you really think it's useful, we'd better have it used as part
of the .SQL definition, to be parsed automatically ?

--strk;