Patch preferred :)
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Andy Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, missed this one very clear message amongst the plethora my search > returned. > > I see that the request for a documentation fix was made here, also (nine > months ago). Looking at the documentation, I see a place to report bugs in > PostGIS <http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch07.html>, but does this > include documentation "bugs"? :-) > > -- Andy > > On May 16, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Håvard Tveite wrote: > >> See <URL: >> http://www.postgis.org/pipermail/postgis-users/2007-August/016816.html > >> >> ST_Union seems to replace GeomUnion. >> >> Håvard >> >> Andy Anderson wrote: >>>> >>>> select a.gid, geomunion(b.the_geom) >>> >>> Being new to PostGIS, I've been looking at other people's code >>> snippets and trying to figure out what they do. I'm a bit mystified >>> by "geomunion()", though, as it's not in the PostGIS docs, though >>> there are many references to it in the mailing list archives. Is this >>> the same as "ST_Union()" <http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ >>> ch06.html#id2595344>? >>> I see a statement at the beginning of Chapter 6 that "PostGIS has >>> begun a transition from the existing naming convention to an SQL-MM- >>> centric convention. As a result, most of the functions that you know >>> and love have been renamed using the standard spatial type (ST) prefix." >>> From this I can conclude that ST_Union() used to be Union(), and in >>> that section it says "NOTE: this is renamed from "union" because >>> union is an SQL reserved word" which implies that even from very >>> early on it was different than Union(), perhaps GeomUnion(). But if >>> this is the case, this name change should also be explicitly documented. >>> If there was a general renaming from Geom* to ST_*, that is also not >>> documented that I can find. >>> Confirmation requested, and if necessary documentation for all such >>> unusual name changes. >>> Thanks, >>> -- Andy >>> _______________________________________________ >>> postgis-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >> >> -- >> Håvard Tveite >> Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, UMB >> Drøbakveien 31, POBox 5003, N-1432 Ås, NORWAY >> Phone: +47 64965483 Fax: +47 64965401 http://www.umb.no/imt/ >> _______________________________________________ >> postgis-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
