[postgis-users] Ignore IllegalArgumentException ?

[strk at refractions.net]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:58:02PM -0700, John Taber wrote:
> Is there a way to ignore IllegalArgumentExceptions so a few bad data 
> elements do not block the rest from being updated ?

Find out what is an illegal argument (probably geometrycollection)
and filter them out before running the query:

 intersection(a, b) where geometrytype(a) != 'GEOMETRYCOLLECTION' ...

--strk;

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