[postgis-users] GEOS union() error

[Lee Keel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-
> bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Obe, Regina
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:41 AM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: RE: [postgis-users] GEOS union() error
> 
> >From my experience it always returns a multipolygon giving a geometry
> collection of multipolygons.
> 
> Actually collect doesn't always return geometry collections anyway.  If
> you say collect a bunch of polygons and they are not overlapping, then
> from my experience that returns a multipolygon.  If you start with
> multipolygons,then it returns a geometry collection, but if you then
> buffer that geometry collection, its seems to result in a multipolygon
> for me - never had it return a geometry collection.  I think its
> something about the process of buffering that strips out the geometries
> from the geometry collection - since if you feed it a single polygon
> encased in a multipolygon structure, it returns a polygon.
> 
> I don't know too much of the details of why that is.
> 
> Thanks,
> Regina
> 
> 
[Lee Keel] 


Well the good news is that actually returned in a very reasonable time...
Bad news is that I got an error:


NOTICE:  St9bad_alloc

ERROR: GEOS buffer() threw an error!
SQL state: XX000


Could this be that my work_mem should be set higher?

-LK
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