[postgis-users] Error while importing data

[Nigel Kukard]

is there somewhere in the code I can disable the constraint?

Regards
Nigel

strk at refractions.net wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:02:31PM +0000, Nigel Kukard wrote:
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>>strk at refractions.net wrote:
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>>>Here you specify that the geometry column will store geometries with
>>>4 dimensions (XYZM).
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>>heh, shp2pgsql specified that.. not me ... :-)
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>>>If you want to be free to add other-dimensioned
>>>geometries an option you have is to drop the enforce_dims_the_geom
>>>constraint
>>>on your table.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>cool
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>>>Note that in that case your geometry_columns entry will
>>>contain a non-true specification.
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>>would this affect mapserver btw? I'm up to try and experiment anything,
>>and help where I can.
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>>>You might want to use a fake value
>>>there, as a notice of 'freely-dimensioned', like '-1'.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>sounds like a good idea!
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>>>Maybe we should support -1 as a dimension value to specify this, like
>>>we do for SRID...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>I'm up to test it out!!
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>Nigel, to say the truth SRID=-1 *special* handling is not used yet,
>but has been proposed. It won't be in PostGIS-1.0.0 though. The
>dimension -1 will probably be implemented at the same time.
>
>About mapserver you shouldn't have any problem as all geometries are
>converted to 2d before parsing anyway, I don't think it uses
>the 'dimension' field of geometry_columns at all.
>
>--strk;
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>>-Nigel
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