[postgis-users] OK to have polygon and multipolygon in same geometry field?

[Paul Ramsey]

No harm from a PostGIS PoV. External software that wants type
homogeneity might complain, perhaps.
P.

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Aren Cambre <aren at arencambre.com> wrote:
> I have a PostGIS dataset imported from a TIGER places SHP for Texas
> (gz_2010_48_160_00_500k). I imported using QGIS's
> supposedly-soon-to-be-deprecated SPIT tool.
>
> The import causes the the_geom field to have both polygon and multipolygon
> types.
>
> Any harm with this? I ultimately want to use this table's the_geom field to
> find points within them that are in another table.
>
> Aren
>
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