[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #2687: raster and vector overloading each others signatures

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#2687: raster and vector overloading each others signatures
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  Reporter:  pramsey   |       Owner:  pramsey      
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  reopened     
  Priority:  critical  |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.1.2
 Component:  postgis   |     Version:  2.1.x        
Resolution:            |    Keywords:               
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Comment(by strk):

 We did intentionally drop implicit text::geometry casts in the past
 indeed, or so I recall. Not sure which way I'd prefer, but I can feel
 Regina being pretty confident on her argument ...

 One thing I can tell: for geography we were kind of _pushed_ to provide
 overrides because geography was _forced_ to the user on upgrade. With
 EXTENSION, _raster_ is also forced, which puts it in the same situation as
 the geography one.

 But it's so long that this problem exists (2.0.0 ?) that I would not
 consider it a regression. So, I'd rather tweak the tests to explicitly
 cast than introduce overloads right now. Especially for the 2.1 branch.

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