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

[Paul Ramsey]

Four step process:

 svn checkout http://svn.refractions.net/postgis/trunk/
 vi docs/postgis.xml
 svn diff docs/postgis.xml > docs.patch
 attach diff to issue in bug tracker

If your revision is trivial, just make a bug tracker issue and describe it.

P.

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Andy Anderson <aanderson at amherst.edu> wrote:
> 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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