#267: Use of GUC to determine default (sphere/spheroid) calculation for geography
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Reporter: robe | Owner: pramsey
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: postgis 2.0.0
Component: postgis | Version: trunk
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I think we had discussed the use of defining GUCs at least for some other
PostGIS thing since PostgreSQL allows modules to load custom GUCs. Forget
what we were thinking for before to use it for, and forget why we decided
against it.
It would seem that that would be the ideal way of allowing people to
control which measurement behavior they would prefer for the ST_Area,
ST_Distance etc. functions and we could default this behavior to sphere as
we are doing currently.
This we may need to table till postgis 2.0.
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