[Qgis-user] Populating area in the attribute table

[James Sewell]

Gary Sherman wrote:
> Probably the easiest way to do this is to load your data into PostGIS. 
> You can create an area column for the layer, then use the area 
> function to calculate areas for each geometry and populate the area 
> column.
Hi Gary, thanks for the response.

I think I can handle getting the data into PostGIS (never done it but 
I've seen it in the docs).

My question is about the "area function".  Is this a PostGIS function or 
QGIS?  Is the function documented somewhere?


-James