<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div>So just for accuracy, I was incorrect, sort of.  While the functions that I am currently using "contains, within, ..." will do the CAST implicitly, the GIST index does not like the bytea type.  Which makes the adoption of an actual geometry column even more urgent.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div>/r/b</div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">--<br>Robert W. Burgholzer<br> 'Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.'  - Charles Mingus<div>Athletics: <a href="http://athleticalgorithm.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://athleticalgorithm.wordpress.com/</a> <br></div><div>Science: <a href="http://robertwb.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://robertwb.wordpress.com/</a></div><div>Wine: <a href="http://reesvineyard.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://reesvineyard.wordpress.com/</a></div></div></div>
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