[postgis-devel] Function Removal

[Martin Davis]

+1, for my 2c on this.

Agreed, shorter is better, so providing a modern alternative to MakePoint
would be great.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 1:22 PM Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

>
> My vote
>
> Add SRID to ST_Point(x,y) -- you can keep existing or overload.
> Overloading
> with another that has srid not optional would be more backward compatible.
> That's the one I use and that most people should be using as it's shorter
> to
> type and name wise is listed in SQL/MM.
>
> Introduce a
>
> ST_3DPoint(x,y,z, srid) -- wholly new so no chance of breaking existing,
> and
> fits our convention of ST_3D in front of 3d functions
> ST_3DMPoint(x,y,m, srid)
>
> As mentioned in IRC that extra  Make in ST_MakePoint seems so superfluous.
>
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