Hi Everyone,
Just out of curiosity, am I the only one late to the game in discovering that the definition of sdo_gtype 2007 allows single polygons, what I would call a "2003" to validly live inside a geometry defined as sdo_gtype 2007? When you see a gtype of 2007 in a geometry do you absolutely expect a multipolyon, or does your shop follow the documentation:
"Geometry can have multiple, disjoint polygons (more than one exterior boundary). (MULTIPOLYGON is a superset of POLYGON.) "
http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B14255_01/sdo_objrelschema.htm#sthref208
That word "can" in the documentation is a sticky one. Looks like this guy has been wondering about this since (the year) 2003 , but I don't see any other discussion:
See:
451394
It's not a big deal to switch all sdo_gtype code to sdo_util.getnumelem when this sort of thing matters. Like I said, just curious if anyone enforces internal standards that are a little more strict than the documentation.
Thanks in advance for your opinions,
Matt