[postgis-devel] geographystyle feature request (external textual representation)

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 01:39:59PM -0400, Malek,Christophe [CMC] wrote:

> It is my understanding that this has been done in Postgres for the date
> and interval data types using the commands:
> "SET DATESTYLE TO ISO" etc. or
> "SET INTERVALSTYLE TO POSTGRES" etc.
> 
> Postgis could perhaps include something similar:
> "SET GEORAPHYSTYLE TO WKT", "SET GEOGRAPHYSTYLE TO POSTGIS", etc. or
> something along those lines to give users some more options.

I second the idea, as long as the GUC lifetime is that of a single
session, the dump should always be in proper HEXWKB.

As for time, I don't have it either. Can we wait for your patch ?

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