id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc
252,Text autocasting behavior of geography is breaking geometry functionality,robe,pramsey,"I have always been against these autocasts especially the text ones.  While I would like to remove it for geometry, that will of course break existing functionality, but PLEASE remove it for geography.

This breaks
SELECT ST_AsBinary('POINT(1 2)');

and gives this error

ERROR:  function st_asbinary(unknown) is not unique
LINE 1: SELECT ST_AsBinary('POINT(1 2)')
               ^
HINT:  Could not choose a best candidate function. You might need to add explicit type casts.

",defect,closed,medium,PostGIS 1.5.0,postgis,trunk,fixed,,