[postgis-users] Spheroid Question

[Paul Ramsey]

Yes, that's the secret sauce. The spheroid string parser is not exactly 
a model of robustness. (Most people just copy and paste a string from 
the docs so noone notices.)
Paul

Jeff Hoffmann wrote:

> Dan Phillips wrote:
> 
>> I'm a PostGIS newbie & would really appreciate some help. I'm taking my
>> first stab at some basic sql and have hit a wall. The code below 
>> generates
>> the error "SPHEROID parser - doesnt start with SPHEROID"
> 
> 
> This may sound silly, but have to tried capitalizing spheroid (i.e., 
> SPHEROID instead of spheroid)?  I think that may be case sensitive.
>