[postgis-devel] Has anyone seen this before?

[Paragon Corporation]

What would result in an UNKNOWN geometry type.  One of our clients is
getting this error when they try to vacuum analyze their table.

> NOTICE:  compute_serialized_box3d called on unknown type 0NOTICE:  
> compute_serialized_box3d called on unknown type 0 ...

On closer inspection -- I see that there are UNKNOWNs and those UNKNOWNS are
not NULL but the ST_AsText looks blank viewed via psql


select count(*),  GeometryType(the_geom) from badtable group by
GeometryType(the_geom);
 count | geometrytype
-------+--------------
 98483 | MULTIPOLYGON
  1517 | UNKNOWN


This is running on


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
 POSTGIS="1.3.6" GEOS="3.2.0-CAPI-1.6.0" PROJ="Rel. 4.6.0, 21 Dec 2007"
USE_STATS

PostgreSQL 8.4.1 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.1.2
20
071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42), 64-bit


They say the table was created by doing a

create table badtable as select * from goodtable order by addr_num_tlid
limit 100000;


the goodtable doesn't exhibit this bizarre behavior.  Not sure if this is a
PostgreSQL bug or PostGIS bug.

Any thoughts?


Thanks,
Regina