[postgis-devel] WKT Output Change

Martin Davis mtnclimb at gmail.com
Fri May 20 10:20:20 PDT 2022


On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 3:19 AM Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:

>
> For now it looks like ST_AsEWKT is stable enough to be usable in testcases
> but
> we don't seem to have any formal documentation about the output to expect
> from it.
> Also, interesting enough, I found an example in the manual which reports
> the output from ST_AsEWKT containing the extra parens while indeed it does
> not ?
> (line 192 of reference_accessor.xml)


I think the manual should have a BNF for both WKT and EWKT.
And EWKT should be aligned with WKT (so, extra parens in MultiPoints).

Lots of the manual examples show inner parens for MultiPoints.  Not sure
how that came about.
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