TAP 1.1 comments

[Walter Landry]

Hi Everyone,

Here are some comments on the TAP 1.1 proposal.

1) The text proposes

     INTERSECTS and CONTAINS are required. POINT, CIRCLE, and POLYGON
     are required. POINT (and point-valued columns) cannot be used as
     an argument to INTERSECTS.

   What is the rationale for not allowing POINT's in INTERSECTS?

2) The text says

     A query with MAXREC=0 can be used with a simple query
     (e.g. SELECT * FROM some_table) to extract and examine the
     VOTable metadata (assuming FORMAT=votable). Note: in this version
     of TAP, this is the only mechanism to learn some of the detailed
     metadata, such as coordinate systems used.

   I thought that TAP_SCHEMA.columns has all of that metadata?

3) I would really like to add a requirement that TAP/async jobs run
   immediately if the parameter PHASE=RUN is passed during the initial
   submission.  As I understand it, this was always intended to be
   true, but was never specified.  I can work on the text if needed.

Cheers,
Walter Landry