[postgis-users] Is GeomUnion() now ST_Union()?

[Paul Ramsey]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Andy Anderson <aanderson at amherst.edu> wrote:

> Being new to PostGIS, I've been looking at other people's code snippets and
> trying to figure out what they do. I'm a bit mystified by "geomunion()",
> though, as it's not in the PostGIS docs, though there are many references to
> it in the mailing list archives. Is this the same as "ST_Union()"

It is the same as ST_Union().  The original couldn't be named
"UNION()", per the OGC document, due to the SQL keyword issue. But now
that we have the prefix, we can revert to the official syntax.

P