[postgis-users] where has the wkb type gone?

[Richard Taylor]

On Wednesday 24 Aug 2005 08:11, strk at refractions.net wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:29:28PM +0100, Richard Taylor wrote:
> ...
>
> I suggest you don't hook on function returns, but just on the
> geometry type.
>
> In a text cursor a 'geometry' would be EWKT for older postgis and
> EHEXWKB for newer one (you can detect the EWKT checking for first
> char in [SPLMG]).
> In a binary cursor a 'geometry' would be internal representation
> for older postgis and EWKB for newer postgis. This would be harder
> to detect.

That all makes sense. I don't need to support older versions of Postgis any 
more. So I will just go for hooking into the cannonical format on the 
'geometry' type. 

Many thanks for the advice.

Richard


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