On Monday 07 April 2008 15:24:16 jiong wrote:
> I am reading postgis code of function LWGEOM_in:
> in older version: wkt -> PG_LWGEOM
> in newer version: wkt -> SERIALIZED_LWGEOM -> LWGEOM -> PG_LWGEOM
>
> So my question are:
>
> (1)SERIALIZED_LWGEOM and PG_LWGEOM have the same serialized format except
> for the member of size's position?
> (2) if SERIALIZED_LWGEOM for code isolation of parser and postgis, why not
> use
> wkt -> SERIALIZED_LWGEOM -> PG_LWGEOM directly?
>
> any idea?
I suspect that this is part of the changes to enable PostGIS to work with
PostgreSQL 8.3 and greater. The reason it is like this is because when I made
the changes, I was hesitant to go through the code and change everything to a
single common form - it is extremely easy to break things, especially against
older versions of PostgreSQL :(
The idea of being able to tidy this up, along with the I/O functions has been
on my personal TODO list for a while. However, due to the large amount of
changes involved, it's going to have to wait for at least a 1.4 series, or
maybe even 2.0...
ATB,
Mark.
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