[postgis-users] hitting a wall on netsted select

[Fred McDavid]

Hi all,

I've got a query that I'm able to make work (with minor appropriate 
modification) with pgadmin3, but that I can't get working with mapserver.

Here's the query (I know it's bad form...it's autogenerated with a "chainable" 
query object):

the_geom FROM (
  select gid,the_geom from (
    select gid,the_geom from staunton_parcels
    ) 
  as qry_id_1 where the_geom && GeometryFromText (
    "POLYGON((670985.96343 4225879.55203,670985.96343 
4225879.55203,670985.96343 4225879.55203,670985.96343 4225879.55203))",-1
    )
  ) AS qry_id_1_simplerenderer_param_tool_id USING UNIQUE gid USING SRID=-1
  
In the error message I get, it appears that my query, at some point, becomes:

DECLARE mycursor BINARY CURSOR FOR SELECT 
asbinary(force_collection(force_2d(the_geom FROM (select 
gid,the_geom)),'NDR'),gid::text from (select gid,the_geom from 
staunton_parcels) as qry_id_1 where the_geom && 
GeometryFromText("POLYGON((670985.96343 4225879.55203,670985.96343 
4225879.55203,670985.96343 4225879.55203,670985.96343 4225879.55203))",-1)) 
AS qry_id_1_simplerenderer_param_tool_id WHERE the_geom FROM (select 
gid,the_geom && setSRID('BOX3D(670041.519546028 
4225427.79642394,671593.10592686 4226432.50832267)'::BOX3D, -1 )

The pgadmin3 query (that works and returns a result) is:

select gid FROM (
  select gid,the_geom from (
    select gid,the_geom from staunton_parcels
    ) 
  as qry_id_1 where the_geom && GeometryFromText (
    'POLYGON((670985.96343 4225879.55203,670985.96343 
4225879.55203,670985.96343 4225879.55203,670985.96343 4225879.55203))',-1
    )
  ) AS qry_id_1_simplerenderer_param_tool_id

Am I missing something obvious (as a new postgis and/or postgres user)?  Is 
there a limitation in the mapserver<->postgis connection that's going to make 
my nifty "chainable" queries unusable?

Thanks in advance,

--Fred

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