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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Yeap, turns out that if I put all parameters as named it works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net
[mailto:postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Emilie
Laffray<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 16, 2009 6:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> PostGIS Users Discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [postgis-users] Weird GEOS problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal>2009/12/16 George Vlahakis <<a
href="mailto:g.vlahakis@telenavis.com">g.vlahakis@telenavis.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#0F243E'>Hi Emilie,</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#0F243E'>Im trying to port over to
npgsql but I cannot get the GeomFromWKB function to get called correctly. No
matter what I do with the wkb parameter the query failes (error near \”,\”).
Any hints?</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#0F243E'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Envy Code R VS";background:silver'>               
<span style='color:#400080'>const</span> <span style='color:#400080'>string</span>
<span style='color:#010001'>sql</span> <span style='color:#2E53D1'>=</span> <b><span
style='color:#259241'>"INSERT INTO table ("</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>

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background-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Envy Code R VS";background:silver'>                                  
<span style='color:#2E53D1'>+</span> <b><span style='color:#259241'>"client,
category, description, geom)"</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Envy Code R VS";background:silver'>                                  
<span style='color:#2E53D1'>+</span> <b><span style='color:#259241'>"
VALUES (?, ?, ?, GeomFromWKB(?, 4326)) RETURNING id"</span></b>;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Envy Code R VS";background:silver'>               
<span style='color:#010001'>cmd</span> <span style='color:#2E53D1'>=</span> <span
style='color:#400080'>new</span> <span style='color:#305FB6'>NpgsqlCommand</span>(<span
style='color:#010001'>sql</span>, <span style='color:#010001'>conn</span>);</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Envy Code R VS";background:silver'>               
<span style='color:#010001'>cmd</span><span style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span
style='color:#010001'>Parameters</span><span style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span
style='color:#010001'>Add</span>(<span style='color:#400080'>string</span><span
style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span style='color:#010001'>Empty</span>, <span
style='color:#010001'>request</span><span style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span
style='color:#010001'>ClientId</span>);</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Envy Code R VS";background:silver'>               
<span style='color:#010001'>cmd</span><span style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span
style='color:#010001'>Parameters</span><span style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span
style='color:#010001'>Add</span>(<span style='color:#400080'>string</span><span
style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span style='color:#010001'>Empty</span>, <span
style='color:#010001'>request</span><span style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span
style='color:#010001'>CategoryId</span>);</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Envy Code R VS";background:silver'>               
<span style='color:#010001'>cmd</span><span style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span
style='color:#010001'>Parameters</span><span style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span
style='color:#010001'>Add</span>(<span style='color:#400080'>string</span><span
style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span style='color:#010001'>Empty</span>, <span
style='color:#010001'>request</span><span style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span
style='color:#010001'>Description</span>);</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<span style='color:#400080'>byte</span>[] <span style='color:#010001'>bytes</span>
<span style='color:#2E53D1'>=</span> <span style='color:#010001'>GetWkbPolygon</span>(<span
style='color:#010001'>request</span><span style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span
style='color:#010001'>Points</span>);</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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background-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Envy Code R VS";background:silver'>               
<span style='color:#010001'>cmd</span><span style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span
style='color:#010001'>Parameters</span><span style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span
style='color:#010001'>Add</span>(<span style='color:#400080'>new</span> <span
style='color:#305FB6'>NpgsqlParameter</span>(<span style='color:#400080'>string</span><span
style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span style='color:#010001'>Empty</span>, <span
style='color:#010001'>bytes</span>));</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Envy Code R VS";background:silver'>               
<span style='color:#400080'>int</span> <span style='color:#010001'>id</span> <span
style='color:#2E53D1'>=</span> (<span style='color:#400080'>int</span>)<span
style='color:#010001'>cmd</span><span style='color:#2E53D1'>.</span><span
style='color:#010001'>ExecuteScalar</span>();</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal>Usually, I use parameters only when I am calling a function.
Here is an example<br>
<br>
agent.AddParameter("@latitude", this.latitude);<br>
agent.AddParameter("@longitude", this.longitude);<br>
<br>
  using (NpgsqlDataReader reader =
agent.ExecuteReader("postgisfunction"))<br>
  {<br>
    if (reader.HasRows)<br>
    {<br>
     reader.Read();<br>
    }<br>
  }<br>
}<br>
<br>
In this case, @latitude and @longitude are the name of the parameters for my
function in Postgresql. I never write SQL statement directly in code. I hope
this will be useful to you.<br>
<br>
Emilie Laffray<o:p></o:p></p>

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