[postgis-devel] PostGIS 1.4 SVN geometry parser hints

Kevin Neufeld kneufeld at refractions.net
Thu Oct 16 08:14:54 PDT 2008


Did POINT Z, POINTZ, POINT M, POINTM, POINT ZM, or POINTZM and their 
corresponding variations in lines and polygons ever make it into the parser?

-- Kevin

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> postgis=# select 'MULTIPOYGON(((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
> 0)))'::geometry;
> ERROR:  parse error - invalid geometry
> HINT:  You must specify a valid OGC WKT geometry type such as POINT, 
> LINESTRING or POLYGON
> 
> 
> ...which I think is a lot more helpful.
> 
> 
> ATB,
> 
> Mark.
> 



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