[postgis-users] Geometry column

[strk at refractions.net]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:56:34PM +0800, Lee Wai See wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for replying. I was actually referring to something like this
> "010100000011349CEE50F4594066B6381EC462F53F".

Same thing, that's canonical text form starting at postgis 1.0.
The actual storage is very similar to that, just binary.
--strk;

> 
> Regards, 
> Wai See
> 
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> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:34:55PM +0800, Lee Wai See wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Can someone please enlighten the reason for the format for storing
> > geometries? In other words, why is it necessary to store a geometry in
> such
> > a format instead of simply just its coordinates? Thanks in advance.
> 
> Do you mean "POINT(0 45)" ?
> That's now what is stored inside the database, just it's external
> representation ("canonical text form", is called)
> 
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