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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Dave,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Apologies for the anti-Microsofties in our crew. They shall be sufficiently slapped for their behavior <span style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Which version of GEOS are you using? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Do a:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> SELECT postgis_full_version();<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>It’s possible that you are using GEOS 3.3 beta and I did run into issues but haven’t pinpointed the issues I’m having yet. I’m not near my server that has GEOS 3.3. to test with.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Regina<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.postgis.us">http://www.postgis.us</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span 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>dave@inventium.co.uk<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 30, 2010 10:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [postgis-users] ST_Buffer<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I am completely new to PostGIS and I appear to be falling at the first hurdle. </span><br><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Trying the example in the documentation (</span><a href="http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.5/ST_Buffer.html"><span lang=EN-GB>http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.5/ST_Buffer.html</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>): </span><br><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>SELECT ST_Buffer(ST_GeomFromText('POINT(100 90)'), 50); </span><br><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>works fine while:</span> <br><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>SELECT ST_Buffer(ST_GeomFromText('POINT(100 90)'), 50, 'quad_segs=4');</span> <br><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Gives a syntax error and</span> <br><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>SELECT ST_Buffer(ST_GeomFromText('POINT(100 90)'), 50, 4);</span> <br><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>crashes the server.</span> <br><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>What am I doing wrong?</span> <br><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Versions:</span> <br><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>PostgreSQL 8.4.5 on Windows 7</span> <br><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>POstGIS 1.5.2</span> <br><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Thanks Dave</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>