[postgis-users] Problem with PostGIS 1.0.0 RC1

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net 
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On 
> Behalf Of strk at refractions.net
> Sent: 25 January 2005 09:03
> To: Mark Cave-Ayland; postgis-devel at postgis.refractions.net; 
> 'Markus Schaber'
> Cc: 'PostGIS Users Discussion'
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Problem with PostGIS 1.0.0 RC1
> 
> 
> I've made all OGC WKB constructors take bytea for consistency 
> (in RC1 all but GeomFromWKB took a geometry, relying on 
> implicit  casts).

Great, I think that having the consistency can only be a good thing :)

> This means you can't feed them an hexWKB, but you should use 
> canonical input for that. Example:
> 
> 	SELECT 
> GeomFromWKB('\\001\\001\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000\\00
> 0\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000');
> 
> 	SELECT Geometry('010100000000000000000000000000000000000000');

Ooops, looks like our emails have crossed :) Thanks again!


Kind regards,

Mark.

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