[postgis-users] Postgis 2.0 wishlist

[Dave Potts]

Willy-Bas Loos wrote:
> My wish for Postgis 2.0:
>
> If you're changing alle the function names, maybe it's time to make 
> system objects of them, stored in a seperate system schema (along with 
> the types, operators, etc)?
> Backing up /Restoring data is a pain when these (possibly outdated) 
> objects (with hardcodes library paths) are included.
A nice idea, I agree that having to change the system paths is a pain, 
but if making all these function system object is to hard, perhaps you 
change the value of expression

CREATE FUNCTION area(geometry) RETURNS double precision
    AS '$libdir/liblwgeom.1.1.so', 'LWGEOM_area_polygon'
    LANGUAGE c IMMUTABLE STRICT;

to something like


CREATE FUNCTION area(geometry) RETURNS double precision
    AS '$syslib, 'LWGEOM_area_polygon'
    LANGUAGE c IMMUTABLE STRICT;

Then  only one value would have to be changed, instead of every expression.

Dave.

>
> Other than that it would be nice to add descriptions to the functions 
> and operators in SQL, e.g. to indicate what the input for each 
> function should be when the number of arguments varies for functions 
> with equal names.
>
>
> Willy-Bas Loos
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