[postgis-users] Help with simple query

[Tara Athan]

Adam- there is a right parenthesis missing at the end of your WKT string 
in the second example.
Tara

Adam Vande More wrote:
> From the example here:  
> http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.3/ch04.html#id2620496 
>
> This query works perfectly
>
> INSERT INTO phone_points ( the_geom ) VALUES ( 
> GeomFromText('POINT(-79.988 40.449)'));
>
> However this one fails
>
> INSERT INTO phone_points ( the_geom ) VALUES ( 
> GeomFromText('POINT(-122.38 37.731'));
>
> with
>
> ERROR: parse error - invalid geometry
> SQL state: XX000
> Context: SQL function "geomfromtext" statement 1
>
> Can someone explain why that is an invalide geometery?
>
> Thanks
>


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