[postgis-users] Number of features

[Paul Ramsey]

Not without seeing the data....

YC Nyon wrote:
> In Arcview, it's stated that a polygon theme has 287 features. After
> converting it into Postgis,
> it has 84 rows.
> My intention now is to tell the user how many features that theme has.
> I could do a count row using PHP-Postgresql "Select count(trans_id) from
> <tablename>"
> but seems not the 'correct' way.
> Check with the documentation, but can't seem to get the correct Postgis
> function to do the above.
> 
> Also, can anyone explain why Postgis has 84 rows and ArcView has 287. It's a
> multipolygon theme.
> 
> TIA
> Nyon