[postgis-users] Postgis 1.5.3 regression test failures

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:27:29AM +1030, Stephen Davies wrote:
> I totally zapped the postgis source tree and started again from the tarball.
> 
> Same result.
> 
> However, this time I captured the PostgreSQL log. For the period of the make 
> check run, the log is 5577 lines long but the first few lines are:
> 
> LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
> LOG:  autovacuum launcher started
> LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> ERROR:  parse error - invalid geometry at character 14
> HINT:  "POINT()" <-- parse error at position 7 within geometry
> STATEMENT:  select '50', 'POINT()'::GEOMETRY as geom;
> ERROR:  parse error - invalid geometry at character 14
> HINT:  "POINT(1)" <-- parse error at position 8 within geometry
> STATEMENT:  select '51', 'POINT(1)'::GEOMETRY as geom;
> ERROR:  parse error - invalid geometry at character 14
> HINT:  "POINT(," <-- parse error at position 7 within geometry
> STATEMENT:  select '52', 'POINT(,)'::GEOMETRY as geom;
> ERROR:  parse error - invalid geometry at character 14
> 
> Obviously I am missing something crucial but I cannot see what.

A bug in the code producing those strings, obviously.

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