[postgis-users] PointM, PolyLineM, PolygonM, MultiPointM support patch

[Paul Ramsey]

I've applied the patch to CVS and committed.
For future reference, "unified" patches are easier to read. Just invoke 
diff with the -U option.
Thanks,
Paul

strk wrote:
> pramsey wrote:
> 
>>We discard Z for 3D shapes? That's odd, we can actually *store* the Z 
>>stuff, unlike the M.
>>Discarding M seems like a reasonable short-term hack to allow shp2pgsql 
>>to handle M-files for now.
> 
> 
> You discard M for 3D shapes, not Z.
> All 3D shapes contain also an array of M values.
> For each shape type we have 3 versions:
> 	simple (XY)
> 	     M (XYM)
> 	     Z (XYMZ)
> M values for Z shapes are in fact discarded by current
> implementation of shp2pgsql. So they are for M shapes
> with that patch ...
> 
> --strk;
> 
> 
>>On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 05:48 AM, strk wrote:
>>
>>
>>>This is my short-term proposal for "measured" shapes support.
>>>Just discarding 'M' array, like done for 3d shapes rigth now...
>>>
>>>http://cobalt.rmnet.it/~san/postgis/shp2pgsql.c-0.7.4-M.patch
>>>
>>>As an aside, I've corrected the code so that PolygonZ shapes
>>>are recognized in the right way (a wrong check prevented control
>>>from reaching the appropriate code for it).
>>>
>>>It is a very short patch, you can take a look at it with your eyes.
>>>
>>>--strk;
>>>
> 
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