[postgis-users] NumInteriorRing(s) ?

[Arnaud Lesauvage]

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Yeah...
> 
> "NumInteriorRing" is superficially an error in the specification, and  
> I brought it up in the SFSQL committee a couple months ago.  It turns  
> out, it was deliberate.  SFSQL is an older specification (late 90s)  
> and they were limiting the length of their function names.  The only  
> way they could fit in NumInteriorRings was to drop the 's'. (Me, I  
> would have turned all the "Num*" functions into "N*" functions, but  
> hindsight is 20/20.)
> 
> And then the author of the conformance guidd I guess did what I did  
> and assumed NumInteriorRing was a typo, and fixed it for the  
> conformance document.
> 
> In any event, we should support the "officially mis-spelled" version  
> as well in order to be *completely* true to the spec.
> 
> Paul

Very complete explanation Paul !
Thanks for the feedbaks on this !

Quite funny though that the conformance document isn't 
*completely* true to the specs either ! ;-)

Arnaud