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

[Andy Anderson]

How would I provide that? Source, methods, destination?

Thanks,

-- Andy

On May 16, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:

> Patch preferred :)
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Andy Anderson  
> <aanderson at amherst.edu> wrote:
>> Ah, missed this one very clear message amongst the plethora my search
>> returned.
>>
>> I see that the request for a documentation fix was made here, also  
>> (nine
>> months ago). Looking at the documentation, I see a place to report  
>> bugs in
>> PostGIS <http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch07.html>, but does  
>> this
>> include documentation "bugs"? :-)
>>
>> -- Andy
>>
>> On May 16, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Håvard Tveite wrote:
>>
>>> See <URL:
>>> http://www.postgis.org/pipermail/postgis-users/2007-August/ 
>>> 016816.html >
>>>
>>> ST_Union seems to replace GeomUnion.
>>>
>>> Håvard
>>>
>>> Andy Anderson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  select a.gid, geomunion(b.the_geom)
>>>>
>>>> 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()" <http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/
>>>> ch06.html#id2595344>?
>>>> I see a statement at the beginning of Chapter 6 that "PostGIS has
>>>> begun a transition from the existing naming convention to an SQL- 
>>>> MM-
>>>> centric convention. As a result, most of the functions that you  
>>>> know
>>>> and love have been renamed using the standard spatial type (ST)  
>>>> prefix."
>>>>  From this I can conclude that ST_Union() used to be Union(),  
>>>> and in
>>>> that section it says "NOTE: this is renamed from "union" because
>>>> union is an SQL reserved word" which implies that even from very
>>>> early on it was different than Union(), perhaps GeomUnion(). But if
>>>> this is the case, this name change should also be explicitly  
>>>> documented.
>>>> If there was a general renaming from Geom* to ST_*, that is also  
>>>> not
>>>> documented that I can find.
>>>> Confirmation requested, and if necessary documentation for all such
>>>> unusual name changes.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> -- Andy
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>>> Håvard Tveite
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