[postgis-users] ST_MakePoint vs. ST_MakePointM

[Andy Becker]

Done, as

   http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/2959

Thanks for the clarifications!  This is my first use of PostGIS, so am still 
learning the software.
Andy

On 10/7/14, 11:17 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 05:10:19PM +1300, Mike Toews wrote:
>> On 8 October 2014 13:41, Andy Becker <acbecker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all - Sorry if this is a long-resolved design decision, but is there a
>>> good reason that MakePoint accepts double precision inputs while MakePointM
>>> only accepts single-precision floats?
>>>
>>>    http://postgis.net/docs/ST_MakePoint.html
>>>    http://postgis.net/docs/ST_MakePointM.html
>> If you look at the function definitions (\df ST_MakePoint*), all of
>> the geometry constructor functions use double precision types. With
>> Postgres, 'float' is taken to mean double precision.
> The documentation would indeed be better using consistent definitions.
> Andy: do you feel like filing a ticket for that ?
>
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