[postgis-devel] Precision Reduction?

Martin Davis mtnclimb at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 17:15:18 PST 2020


+1 for exposing it.

ST_ReducePrecision ?
ST_SetPrecision ?
ST_Round ?
ST_RoundToGrid ?  (maybe...to indicate it is related to SnapToGrid.  But
perhaps this will be more confusing than helpful)

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 3:12 PM Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
wrote:

> One of the "new" GEOS 3.9 features is that
>
> GEOSGeom_setPrecision
>
> actually backs onto the OverlayNG precision reducer, so you can get valid
> precision reduced geometries out of it.
>
> Currently, nothing in PostGIS exposes this functionality (because prior to
> this the precision reducer in GEOS wasn't really any smarter than our own
> snap to grid).
>
> Should we be exposing this?
>
> Under what name?
>
> P
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