[postgis-devel] GeometryFromWKB

[Martin Schäfer]

Hi,
 
The PostGIS online documentation mentions a function 'GeometryFromWKB' under 'Other functions'.
However, when I try to use it, e.g. like this:
 
select AsText(GeometryFromWKB('010100000000000000000024400000000000003440'::wkb, 4326));
 
I well get the error message:
 
ERROR:  Function geometryfromwkb(wkb, integer) does not exist
        Unable to identify a function that satisfies the given argument types
        You may need to add explicit typecasts
 
Is this function not yet implemented? If not, then when is it going to be implemented? I believe that GeometryFromWKB() would be a lot faster than GeometryFromText() when a large number of geometries (e.g. > 100,000) are inserted into a table. Is there any chance that it will be implemented soon?
 
The PostGIS version I'm using is 0.7, PostGreSQL is 7.3.4.
 

Best regards,

 

Martin Schäfer

Senior Software Engineer

Cadcorp

Computer Aided Development Corp. Ltd.

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