[postgis-devel] spatial_ref_sys view

[Paul Ramsey]

> On Feb 4, 2022, at 10:31 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> 
> I'm with Raul about dropping the table as a whole, maybe replacing
> it with a view (for OGC compliancy) returning the data as queried
> from the proj.db by a C function (I'm assuming this is possible).

I wondered about this, and there is *some* machinery to pull definitions out of the proj API, but it's not clear to me that the machinery as currently constituted would be fast enough for our purposes. It is also (probably) pretty recent, as the API was quite sparse in the earlier proj releases.

P.