Added notes about PointN, GeometryN and InteriorRingN indexing method

git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@1891 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 7fde2de002d31662204a1df7df006f21e8cd9dc6..a76a7a39361ec8caec86e825975658b7b071daab 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ PostGIS 1.0.4
          fixed segfault on MULTILINESTRING input.
        - Fixed bug in MakeLine dimension handling
        - Looser syntax acceptance in box3d parser
+       - Documentation improvements
 
 PostGIS 1.0.3
 2005/08/08

diff --git a/doc/postgis.xml b/doc/postgis.xml
index a345f5ddbd77b8f795cd03713e561a4083ff91a2..83717a18391bda2a1371d86c00d6b47941e68611 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/postgis.xml
+++ b/doc/postgis.xml
@@ -3411,7 +3411,10 @@ dimension
               GEOMETRYCOLLECTION, MULTIPOINT, MULTILINESTRING or MULTIPOLYGON.
               Otherwise, return NULL.</para>
 
-              <para>1 is 1st geometry</para>
+               <note> <para>
+               Index is 1-based as for OGC specs since version 0.8.0.
+               Previous versions implemented this as 0-based instead.
+               </para></note>
             </listitem>
           </varlistentry>
 
@@ -3432,6 +3435,10 @@ dimension
               <para>Return the N'th point in the first linestring in the
               geometry. Return NULL if there is no linestring in the
               geometry.</para>
+               <note> <para>
+               Index is 1-based as for OGC specs since version 0.8.0.
+               Previous versions implemented this as 0-based instead.
+               </para></note>
             </listitem>
           </varlistentry>
 
@@ -3460,7 +3467,11 @@ dimension
             <listitem>
               <para>Return the N'th interior ring of the polygon geometry.
              Return NULL if the geometry is not a polygon or the given
-             N is out of range (1-based).</para>
+             N is out of range.</para>
+               <note> <para>
+               Index is 1-based as for OGC specs since version 0.8.0.
+               Previous versions implemented this as 0-based instead.
+               </para></note>
             </listitem>
           </varlistentry>