[postgis-users] Intersection ion 0.7.4 ???

[Alexander Pucher]

Paul,

can you give me a careful estimation on when these functions will be 
available in the CVS.

alex


Paul Ramsey wrote:

> Right, patience!
> I added the OGC test files in anticipation of having all the 
> functions. We are getting closer to having those functions in GEOS, 
> and having GEOS integrated into PostGIS, but we are not there yet. Soon!
> Paul
>
> On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 05:00 AM, Alexander Pucher wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just had a look at the OGC example in the 0.7.4 source tree. In 
>> file '2-queries.sql', various tests for new GIS functions are 
>> mentioned, among them INTERSECTION.
>> I set up a new database, filled it with data and tried the following:
>>
>> SELECT Intersection(nuec_l0.the_geom, road.the_geom) FROM nuec_l0,road;
>>
>>
>> but got the following error:
>>
>> Error - /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/php/phpPgAdmin/sql.php -- Line: 112
>> PostgreSQL said: ERROR: Function 'intersection(geometry, geometry)' 
>> does not
>> exist Unable to identify a function that satisfies the given argument 
>> types
>> You may need to add explicit typecasts
>> Your query:
>> SELECT Intersection(nuec_l0.the_geom, road.the_geom)
>> FROM nuec_l0,road
>>
>>
>>
>> So my question is:
>> Is this my fault (i.e. wrong query syntax) or is this function (as 
>> well as the others mentioned in the test file) not yet included in 
>> PostGIS?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> alex
>>
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