[postgis-users] ST_StartPoint fails with MultiLineString

[Jose Carlos Martinez]

HI,
p2211=# select st_startpoint ('MULTILINESTRING ((0 0, 10 0))');
  st_startpoint
---------------

(1 row)

returns null, according to SQL/MM  ST_StartPoint is working with 
ST_Curve,  this is ok.  But I do not think its practical, besides 
previous versions of PostGIS returned the first point correctly.

Is this a bug or PostGIS is trying to follow standards in a more strict way?

same with st_endpoint.
Cheers,


PD:
p2211=# select postgis_lib_build_date(), postgis_full_Version();
  postgis_lib_build_date 
|                                                               
postgis_full_version

------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  2011-11-22 08:39:41    | POSTGIS="2.0.0SVN" GEOS="3.3.2dev-CAPI-1.7.2" 
PROJ="Rel. 4.6.1, 21 August 2008" GDAL="GDAL 1.9dev, released 
2011/01/18" LIBXML="2.7.8" USE_STATS
(1 fila)