[postgis-users] Light WeightLight Weight Geometry (LWGEOM)Proposal

[Ralph Mason]

David Blasby wrote:

>> I am not sure I understand what you mean here?  Which overhead?
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> The programming overhead.  There's quite a bit of work to getting a 
> type thats properly indexable and has the correct support.  Then 
> there's adding all the functionality to it.
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Oh yes - that I understand that totaly.

This is why I was wondering if a templating soluition was possible, so 
the code is written once (in a datatype non specific way), and templates 
take care of making an implementation for each data type.

Ralph