Four step process: svn checkout http://svn.refractions.net/postgis/trunk/ vi docs/postgis.xml svn diff docs/postgis.xml > docs.patch attach diff to issue in bug tracker
If your revision is trivial, just make a bug tracker issue and describe it. P. On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Andy Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would I provide that? Source, methods, destination? > > Thanks, > > -- Andy > > On May 16, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote: > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
