[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0.0beta3

[Paul Ramsey]

It's patched in trunk and the 6.0 release, but there is no numbered
release with the fix yet.
P

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Andy Colson <andy at squeakycode.net> wrote:
> On 3/14/2012 4:46 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Andy Colson<andy at squeakycode.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> ... and GeomFromText became ST_GeomFromText ...  Why did some drop the
>>> ST_
>>> and some have it added?
>>
>>
>> The external spatial functions got them added, so all match up to the
>> standards base. The internal functions, used for casts got them
>> stripped to match PostgreSQL convention: newtype(oldtype) is the
>> PostgreSQL standard casting function signature. There are some other
>> even more internal functions (type_in(), type_out()) that you don't
>> see or use that also had their st_ prefixes stripped. They really
>> should never have had them added in the first place.
>>
>> P.
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>
> I have run into a problem.  Mapserver 6 (.0.1 and .0.2) uses GeomFromText.
>
> Are there any mapserver people on this list?  I'll post to the map server
> list otherwise.
>
> -Andy