[postgis-devel] BOX3D strange behaviour

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 06:41:04AM -0500, Daniel Baston wrote:
> There's now a pull request to address this:
> 
> https://github.com/postgis/postgis/pull/92
> 
> The only places in the regression suite where a BOX3D->geometry cast is
> executed are places where a (user-input) BOX3D literal is explicitly cast
> to a geometry.  So, there shouldn't be a performance hit or ill effect of
> having the BOX3D->geometry cast produce a PolyhedralSurface, as Even
> suggests.
> 
> Any objections to this?

I think it'd still count as an API break as clients expecting
a POLYGON would not get one. Hard to anticipate how offending
such change could be, but should be threated as an API break,
if done.

I wonder if it makes sense to keep improving BOX3D rather than
deprecating it in favor of something different.

--strk;