<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Luís de Sousa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luis.a.de.sousa@gmail.com" target="_blank">luis.a.de.sousa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello again,</div><div><br></div><div>
In section 5 of the Workshop the assign_vertex_id function is used on a MULTILINESTRING column:</div><div><br></div><a href="http://workshop.pgrouting.org/chapters/topology.html#calculate-topology" target="_blank">http://workshop.pgrouting.org/chapters/topology.html#calculate-topology</a><br>
<div><br></div><div>This function makes use of the st_startpoint function that can only take as input a LINESTRING. I worked around this by creating an extra column in the ways table, but I wonder what can be the usage may be of a network composed by MULTILINESTRING objects. Perhaps it would be better to simply change the data type used in this example.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Yes, this is another issue that comes with PostGIS 2.0.</div><div style>You can change "multi" geometries into single geometry like this:</div><br><font face="courier new, monospace">SELECT (ST_Dump(geom)).geom AS geom FROM <table></font></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" style>or</div><div class="gmail_quote" style><br></div><font face="courier new, monospace">ALTER TABLE <table> ALTER COLUMN geom <br> SET DATA TYPE geometry(Linestring,4326) USING ST_GeometryN(geom, 1);</font></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In general these are all LINESTRINGS, so it's no problem to convert.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">With new release of pgRouting this will be fixed.<br>
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