Add support for geometric types
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Description
It would be nice if these were returned as arrays of numbers rather than strings.
For parsing it should be easy enough - replace parentheses (( )), braces ({ }), and chevrons (< >) with square brackets and then do a JSON.parse().
For serialising, this might be more complicated, as we'll need to make the sql() function handle arrays of arrays. It seems to work at the moment, but typescript isn't very happy about it.
I'm happy to do a PR, if you think this is worth adding @porsager.
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Research direction
Start with the PostgreSQL geometric type documentation and the existing parsing path, using JSON.parse() as the proposed conversion approach. Then inspect the sql() function's handling of arrays of arrays and its TypeScript types. Done means geometric values are returned as numeric arrays and can be serialized without TypeScript errors.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, postgresql
- Domain
- database
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100