[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #3068: Arbitrary "coord_dimension" for geometry_columns with unconstrained 4D point

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#3068: Arbitrary "coord_dimension" for geometry_columns with unconstrained 4D
point
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 Reporter:  strk     |       Owner:  pramsey      
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium   |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.7
Component:  postgis  |     Version:  2.0.x        
 Keywords:           |  
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Comment(by robe):

 As I recall I think we did that for backward compatibility because we were
 afraid of breaking applications if we had NULL returned.  NULL has never
 been returned by a geometry_columns table in the history of PostGIS and I
 think it might have been set to not allow nulls.

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