[postgis-users] About Invalid OGC WKT Error

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

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> Hi, Tom,
> 
> Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] schrieb:
> > How does affect the MapServer connections to PostGIS?
> 
> To be honest, I don't know. That depends on which method 
> MapServer uses to access PostGIS. As I never used MapServer, 
> I have no idea.
> 
> When using the JDBC classes, replacing the postgis.jar in the 
> classpath should be enough. Equally, any other toolkit should 
> provide its update, with noch changes to mapserver itsself.
> 
> When using OpenGIS methods (asText() or asBinary() etc.), no 
> changes should be necessary.
> 
> When using PostGIS specific, like "SELECT geom FROM table;" 
> then MapServer will need a new HexWKB parser or be changed to 
> use OpenGIS methods or the new asEWKT() PostGIS specific methods.
>

MapServer connects via (user config):

DATA "the_geom from table_name"

Does one need to pass a function (like asEWKT(the_geom from table) on this?  I'm not sure how this is evaluated in the MapServer / PostGIS connector code itself, though.

..Tom

 
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