From: Regina Obe Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:13:35 +0000 (+0000) Subject: try to force paragraph at top using sectinfo abstract. Make note about deprecation... X-Git-Tag: 1.5.0b1~156 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=689137b917e8ac20adc3fc18940a6fb45e0f898a;p=postgis try to force paragraph at top using sectinfo abstract. Make note about deprecation more threatening. git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@4926 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee --- diff --git a/doc/reference.xml b/doc/reference.xml index 9c94dbf33..72cccd2ea 100644 --- a/doc/reference.xml +++ b/doc/reference.xml @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ 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. Previous functions are still available, though are not listed in - this document where updated functions are equivalent. These will be - deprecated in a future release. + this document where updated functions are equivalent. The non ST_ functions not listed in this documentation are + deprecated and will be removed in a future release so STOP USING THEM. &reference_type; diff --git a/doc/reference_type.xml b/doc/reference_type.xml index 57be6f171..387318cbb 100644 --- a/doc/reference_type.xml +++ b/doc/reference_type.xml @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ PostgreSQL PostGIS Types + + This section lists the PostgreSQL data types installed by PostGIS. Note we describe the casting behavior of these which is very important especially when designing your own functions. @@ -13,8 +15,9 @@ but no geometry. What happens is that both functions are equally good to use with geometry since geometry has an autocast for both -- so you end up with an ambiguous function error. To force PostgreSQL to choose, you do a CAST(mygeom As box3d) or mygeom::box3d. - At least asof PostgreSQL 8.3 - Everything can be CAST to text (presumably because of the magical unknown type), so no defined CASTS for that need to be present for you to CAST an object to text. - + At least as of PostgreSQL 8.3 - Everything can be CAST to text (presumably because of the magical unknown type), so no defined CASTS for that need to be present for you to CAST an object to text. + + box2d