[postgis-users] Upgrading from PostgreSQL 8.0 with PostGIS 0.9 to PostgreSQL 8.1 with PostGIS 1.0

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, Mario,

Mario Servin wrote:
> Thanks Stephen! now I can see them!!. How can I change the default
> behavior for seeing as simple text ?

The so-called "canonical" representation you see is meant to be machine
readable.

Users should use the OpenGIS asText() and PostGIS asEWKT() accessor
methods, or an driver extension that abstracts over the internal
representation (like the postgis jdbc extension).


Markus
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