[postgis-devel] Issue 71 in postgis: Update section 4.2 of docs to describe manual adding to geometry columns

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Issue 71: Update section 4.2 of docs to describe manual adding to geometry  
columns
http://code.google.com/p/postgis/issues/detail?id=71

New issue report by robe.... at cityofboston.gov:
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Hamlin [mailto:maplabs at light42.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:37 PM
To: Obe, Regina
Cc: David Bitner
Subject: AddGeometryColumn() docs
Hi Regina-

    I am working on oge2ogr a bit .. and discovered with the new
1.6_trunk version, you can use a view as an ogr datasource. In order to
see the view, you can add a tables=view1 in the dsn, or just manually
add a geometry_columns entry for the view. This works great, I believe
it is then a first class citizen with an SRS.

    But apparently AddGeometryColumns() won't execute for a view. So we
were discussing an addition in section 4.2.2/4.2.3 of the manual to
talk a little bit about adding a geometry column entry manually..

    On the ogr2ogr side, I want to describe the technique in the pg
driver "man" page...

    I think this is a really important new feature of ogr.

    -Brian




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	Status: Accepted
	Owner: robe.... at cityofboston.gov

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