[postgis-devel] Re: [postgis-users] create tables smarter

[Stephen Frost]

* Mark Cave-Ayland (mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk) wrote:
> Yup indeed. The idea of this discussion is to see if we can actually get  
> to the point where we can do this to save people having to manually  
> having to touch geometry_columns if they update SRIDs etc.  This is  
> because the OGC standard mandates that this is where applications should  
> look to locate geometric tables and their associated metadata.

Right, encoding the information into the typmod definitely implies
making geometry_columns a view based on that.  Now, we'd probably have
some helper C functions which would be used in the view to pull the data
out in the nice format it's in now, of course.

	Thanks,

		Stephen
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