[postgis-users] new GEOS goodies in PostGIS CVS

[Paul Ramsey]

On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 01:34 AM, Gregory S. Williamson wrote:

> FWIW, this naming convention follows Informix Spatial Blade, from 
> which the DB2 stuff is derived. Not sure if the name is the important 
> thing; 'tis the functionality. It does seems as if PostGIS/GEOS is 
> approaching the spatial blade's functionality (although 
> speed/performance issues may differ).

Yes, we'll be faster :)
P.


> Greg Williamson
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Ramsey [mailto:pramsey at refractions.net]
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> I just checked out DB2, all their spatial functions are prefixed with
> ST_.
> ST_Union(), ST_Difference(), ST_Relate().
> Sucks to have followed the namespace this far and to have to have a
> misnamed function at the end.  Apparently the SFSQL people weren't
> watching the SQL spec too closely when naming the functions.
> P.
>
> On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 06:32 PM, Wood Brent wrote:
>>> "Union" is an SQL reserved word, so I used "GeomUnion" - anyone have 
>>> a
>>> better name?
>>
>> merge or combine? (Join is also appropriate but can be misconstrued in
>> a
>> relatiional environment)
>
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