[postgis-users] new GEOS goodies in PostGIS CVS

[Gregory S. Williamson]

FWIW, this naming convention follows Informix Spatial Blade, from which the DB2 stuff is derived. Not sure if the name is the important thing; 'tis the functionality. It does seems as if PostGIS/GEOS is approaching the spatial blade's functionality (although speed/performance issues may differ).

Greg Williamson


-----Original Message-----
From:	Paul Ramsey [mailto:pramsey@refractions.net]
Sent:	Fri 8/1/2003 10:04 PM
To:	PostGIS Users Discussion
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Subject:	Re: [postgis-users] new GEOS goodies in PostGIS CVS

I just checked out DB2, all their spatial functions are prefixed with 
ST_.
ST_Union(), ST_Difference(), ST_Relate().
Sucks to have followed the namespace this far and to have to have a 
misnamed function at the end.  Apparently the SFSQL people weren't 
watching the SQL spec too closely when naming the functions.
P.

On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 06:32 PM, Wood Brent wrote:
>> "Union" is an SQL reserved word, so I used "GeomUnion" - anyone have =
a
>> better name?
>
> merge or combine? (Join is also appropriate but can be misconstrued in =

> a
> relatiional environment)


      Paul Ramsey
      Refractions Research
      Email: pramsey@refractions.net
      Phone: (250) 885-0632


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