[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #3178: EWKB emitter should emit complex empty geometry

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#3178: EWKB emitter should emit complex empty geometry
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  Reporter:  pramsey  |      Owner:  pramsey
      Type:  defect   |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  medium   |  Milestone:  PostGIS 2.1.8
 Component:  postgis  |    Version:  trunk
Resolution:  fixed    |   Keywords:
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Changes (by pramsey):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => fixed


Comment:

 I just had a severe debugging issue because of this. It looked very much
 like a local install or hardware issue, because it was impossible to
 replicate elsewhere. Turns out the replication issue was the inability to
 dump/restore the actual geometry. Since we can create these things, we
 need to allow them transit. Now, another approach might be to try to catch
 them at serialization and never allow them to be stored on disk at all.
 I've implemented the "simple" fix for now, which allows them out into WKB,
 when teh WKB variant is "EXTENDED" (the dump format).

 Committed at r13701. Still leaves representing POINT EMPTY as NaN,NaN as a
 TBD task.

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