[postgis-devel] RE: [postgis-users] Problem with PostGIS 1.0.0 RC1

[strk at refractions.net]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:22:08AM -0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net 
> > [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On 
> > Behalf Of strk at refractions.net
> > Sent: 25 January 2005 09:03
> > To: Mark Cave-Ayland; postgis-devel at postgis.refractions.net; 
> > 'Markus Schaber'
> > Cc: 'PostGIS Users Discussion'
> > Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Problem with PostGIS 1.0.0 RC1
> > 
> > 
> > I've made all OGC WKB constructors take bytea for consistency 
> > (in RC1 all but GeomFromWKB took a geometry, relying on 
> > implicit  casts).
> 
> Great, I think that having the consistency can only be a good thing :)

We also have all of GeomFromText() which is currently taking
a 'geometry' instead of 'text'. This allows users to use non-standard
OGC functions, and I think should be changed.

Note that current behaviour makes this possible (as side-effects):
	SELECT GeomFromText('00..FF');
	SELECT GeomFromText('\\000\\001...'::bytea);

.. which I think should be forbidden.

What do you think ?

--strk;