[postgis-devel] Ring Indices in DumpPoints

[Regina Obe]

My hair is a little warm on this one.

Standardizing on 1-based rather than 0-based makes the most sense to me.
Yah I know it's changing more functions.

But as Martin said in the ticket isn't 1-based the OGC standard.  It's the
standard of PostgreSQL too.
So why are we trying to get away from the standard or is it because it's
exterior ring?

Sure it makes sense when talking about polygons to have exterior be 0 and
interior not be (maybe) but then it makes no sense for multipoints to have
the first be 0 - it should start at 1.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On
> Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
> Sent: Monday, March 1, 2021 12:05 PM
> To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [postgis-devel] Ring Indices in DumpPoints
> 
> This is a back-breaking change (for those who actually use the numbers) so
> I'd like to see if anyone has light-your-hair-on-fire reaction to changing
> ST_DumpPoints to number rings starting at 0 just like DumpRings does.
> 
> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/4858
> 
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