<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Hi there,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>strange, I hardly found any information on google for the following error:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B>xxx=# insert into gtest (id, name, geom) values (1, 'first geometry', GeomFromText('LINESTRING(2,3,4,5,6,5,7,8)', -1));</B></DIV><DIV><B>ERROR: parse error - invalid geometry</B></DIV><DIV><B>CONTEXT: SQL function "geomfromtext" statement 1</B></DIV><DIV><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV>Can anyone help me out? I am just starting with PostGIS, have everything (?) installed (running a Mac), and follow the example of the postgis-doc.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks for any tipps,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Stef</DIV></BODY></HTML>