[postgis-users] geometryFromText() dropping SRID
David Blasby
dblasby at refractions.net
Wed Mar 24 09:51:51 PST 2004
Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it intentional that geometryFromText() ignores the given SRID?
>
> logibox=# select geometryFromText('SRID=2000;POINT(9.1833 47.65)');
> geometryfromtext
> ----------------------------
> SRID=0;POINT(9.1833 47.65)
> (1 Zeile)
yes - geometryfromtext() expects wkt. It should actually throw an error
if you have an "SRID=<srid>;" in your WKT.
dave
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