Opened 15 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#226 closed enhancement

Motion to remove PT_16BF from specification — at Version 2

Reported by: mloskot Owned by: pracine
Priority: high Milestone: WKTRaster 0.1.6
Component: raster Version: master
Keywords: wktraster, type, float-point Cc:

Description (last modified by mloskot)

Recently, Frank and Jorge have pointed that there is no known good reason of supporting PT_16BF (16-bit float-point numeric type) defined in the original specification documents (see RFC1-SerializedFormat and [http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/browser/spike/wktraster/doc/RFC2-WellKnownBinaryFormat RFC2-WellKnownBinaryFormat. Also, it is unclear of what's the purpose of this type.

I have never seen such a thing before and I'm not sure why it is part of the WKTRaster specification. I would suggest removing it. - Frank's post

Martin Daly and I, we agree that there is no point to support 16-bit float-point type.

This ticket is to propose (official) removal of PT_16BF type from the WKT Raster specification as well as from the implementation.

Any objections?

Change History (2)

comment:1 by mloskot, 15 years ago

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comment:2 by mloskot, 15 years ago

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