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Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] force_collection()
From: Paul Ramsey <pramsey () refractions ! net>
Date: 2005-05-20 16:11:06
Message-ID: 428E0C1A.3010201 () refractions ! net
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I think this is one we will leave alone and instead handle on the
mapserver side.
strk@refractions.net wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:21:36AM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>
>>The semantics of force_collection are almost, but not quite, the same
>>between 0.9 and 1.0. The difference is causing mapserver breakage in
>>very rare cases (like the demo I am doing for MUM).
>>
>>I think you will find that
>>
>>asbinary(force_collection(collect(the_geom))) where the_geom is a
>>multilinestring returns a different result between 1.0 and 0.9
>>
>>I do not know if we care enough to change it, but it is a backwards
>>compatibility thing for mapserver in rare cases.
>
>
> I find the new behaviour more correct:
> collecting multilines produces a geometrycollection
>
> The old behaviour was:
> collecting multilines produces a multilinestring
>
> Old behaviour was also based on a limit of postgis: not being
> able to nest geometrycollection. We can reproduce the old
> behaviour by using dump() and collect() the multilines elements.
>
> --strk;
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