<br><font size=2><tt>> It would be possible to put a trigger on your
table that took the <br>
> float columns <br>
> and created a point or line geometry out of them, and updated a <br>
> geometry column <br>
> in your database, every time a row was inserted or updated. Then youcould
do <br>
> all the geometric operations you want, even spatial indexing, without
really <br>
> having to worry about the non-standard sql portion of the database
<br>
> (other than <br>
> writing the initial trigger function).<br>
</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>Nice suggestion Chris! An often overlooked feature
of the database. Got any examples handy? I'm using views like
this when I really should use a trigger.</tt></font>