[postgis-devel] Re: [postgis-users] create tables smarter

Stephen Frost sfrost at snowman.net
Thu Jun 5 16:15:33 PDT 2008


* Kevin Neufeld (kneufeld at refractions.net) wrote:
> What about geometric views?  I recall that in order to get mapserver to  
> work with views, you had to trick it and manually put an entry into the  
> geometry columns table.
>
> I suppose if we change geometry_columns into a view that looks at the  
> system tables, it could also include the necessary information regarding  
> defined geometric views.

Yes, view definitions also go into the same tables and can contain their
own typmod definitions, etc.

	Thanks,

		Stephen
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