[postgis-users] About Invalid OGC WKT Error

[Paul Ramsey]

It appears that findsrid is failing for reasons unclear. Oh, wait, do 
you have valid entries in geometry_columns for your tables/geocolumns?

I swear to god, one of the stupidest things we did in PostGIS was 
enforce SRID coherence in queries. It is "for your own good" but the 
extra maintenance overhead totally makes it not worthwhile. Better just 
to blindly assume the user knows what they are doing. This way it is 
trivially easy to make a system that is broken for no obviously visible 
reason.

On Thursday, February 3, 2005, at 06:07 PM, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] 
wrote:

>>
>> I tried changing table geometry SRID defs to -1 (from 4326),
>> as well as my inserts for my records, and I'm not able to see a map.
>>
>
> Sorry, I meant I *was* able to see a map. :)  But confused as to why a
> fake SRID would work instead of a valid one.
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