[postgis-users] Problem using GeomFromEWKT with a long LINESTRING

[Robert Coup]

On 30/11/2007, Randy George <rkgeorge at cadmaps.com> wrote:
>
>
>     I am having a problem loading a long LINESTRING into a table:
>
> The following command will create the new record but does not add the_geom
> field. There is no error message. If I shorten the LINESTRING all works as
> expected? I've tried it on a couple of PostGIS systems with the same
> results.


Are you _sure_ its not working?  If you're using PgAdmin or some other GUIs,
they don't display long text values properly (they just come up as empty
boxes). Try doing "SELECT numpoints(the_geom) FROM track;"

I can assure you ~1000 points is not a long linestring ;)

Rob :)
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