[postgis-users] Postgis data loading

[Brent Wood]

Apologies, 

The info in the new manual does cover this, but as I'm using v0.8, so am 
without lwgeom & EWKT, etc,  I was using the manual for 0.8 which did not
explain this as well.

Thanks for the help (& the improved docs!)

  Brent



 
> > There is no mention of copy as a means of loading data in the PostGIS docs
> > (section 4.3), just sequences of insert sqls.
> > 
> > So is there some reason I'm unaware of which makes copy unsuitable, or is
> it
> > just an omission? 
> 
> All examples used GeomFromText(), I think to reduce documented "promises".
> It came handly when switching between 0.x and 1.x as canonical input
> changed between the two.
> Anyway, you can read something in 4.1.2.
> Actually you can read the whole manual and stop indulging.
> 
> --strk;
> 
> >  
> > 
> > Brent
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