[postgis-users] postgis support for 7.4 betas

[David Blasby]

> Just to follow up, I did some digging around & ended up changing the 
> function definition for "asbinary(geometry, text)" to return type 
> "bytea" instead of "wkb" & that seemed to solve the problem, although I 
> don't know if it's going to break anything as a result.  I'm guessing 
> that the bytea(wkb) function was there for just this case & was being 
> used in 7.3 but isn't being used for some reason with 7.4.  I know next 
> to nothing about the typecasting, though, so it's just a guess.

I looked a little deeper.  It looks like they changed how binary is 
created/sent around in 7.4.  There's not much documentation on it, but 
if you look at the 7.4 description of CREATE TYPE:::

"...
  Similarly, the optional send_function converts from the internal 
representation to the external binary representation. If this function 
is not supplied, the type cannot participate in binary output. The send 
function may be declared as taking one argument of the new data type, or 
as taking two arguments of which the second is type oid. The second 
argument is again the array element type for array types. The send 
function must return type bytea.
"

So, it looks like we need to change the CREATE TYPE of WKB to (see 'SEND='):

CREATE TYPE wkb (
	internallength = variable,
	input = wkb_in,
	output = wkb_out,
	storage = extended,
	SEND = WKBtoBYTEA
);


I havent tried this at all, but I think it should work.


dave