[postgis-devel] Re: [postgis-users] 1.0.0 RC1 Ready For Download

[strk at refractions.net]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:27:29PM +0100, Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> strk at refractions.net schrieb:
> 
> >>not if I tried the binary or hexadecimal form (O don't know ) done by
> >>shp2Pgsql...
> >shp2pgsql uses only canonical hexadecimal now.
> >
> >o-oh... I suspect a big problem here :/
> >Old dumps produced by shp2pgsql won't be accepted if containing 
> >3d geoms :!! (this thread to postgis-devel please).
> 
> I thought dumps don't use GeometryFromText, but go through the canonical 
> text parser that still accepts old SRID;WKT representation?

Nope, old shp2pgsql used GeometryFromText, with Z extension I'm afraid.
Fortunately our *strictness* only issues a WARNING, but still
accepts EWKT.

--strk;

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