[postgis-devel] PostGIS 1.4 SVN geometry parser hints

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Paul Ramsey wrote:

> Why does this error start with "...?gs"?
> 
> postgis2=# select 'MULTIPOLYGON(((0 0, 0 0, 0 0,0 0),(0 0, 0 0, 0 0,0
> 0),(0 0, 0 0, 0 0,0 0),(0 0, 0 0, 0 0,0 0),(0 0, 0 , 0 0,0
> 0)))'::geometry;
> ERROR:  parse error - invalid geometry
> HINT:  "...?gs, 0 0,0 0),(0 0, 0 0, 0 0,0 0),(0 0, 0 ," <-- parse
> error at position 103 within geometry
> 
> P.

Hmmm that looks like an incorrect pointer, perhaps somewhere in the 
pointer arithmetic :(  Unfortunately I can't re-create that here - which 
platform are you working on? Does stepping through pg_parser_errhint() 
in lwgeom_pg.c yield anything obvious?


ATB,

Mark.

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