[postgis-devel] WKT Output Change

Martin Davis mtnclimb at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 10:08:36 PDT 2022


+1.  High time for this fix.

FWIW JTS 1.11 made this change back in 2010.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 8:59 AM Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
wrote:

> https://github.com/postgis/postgis/pull/682/
>
> Just a point of discussion, this PR to change the default MULTIPOINT
> output.
> - Pro: it's correct, the ISO spec mandates extra parens, so MULTIPOINT((1
> 1), (2 2), (3 3))
> - Also: It's not new, this was true of the ISO spec from the start, I just
> mis-read it
> - Con: It's a change, to a core output format, after a good decade
>
> Some side notes
> - The input parser already accepts the correct ISO form, so this won't
> break *our* consumption or ability to round-trip WKT
>
> I'm inclined to accept, and make sure we have good change / news notes
> about it, as it's potentially breaking.
>
> P
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