[postgis-users] Intersection - No GID

[Marcus C. England]

Thanks, Robert. I thought I read that the newer functions beginning with
"ST_" allow you to simplify the expressions, but I am not sure how. When
you are new to this, I think simpler is better (at least easier to learn!).

-Marcus

Burgholzer,Robert wrote:
> Marcus,
> 1) You could create your table prior to populating it, and include a column that is type "SERIAL", this will create an autogenerated integer identifier that you could name "gid" if you so desired.
>
> 2) select area2d(Intersection(f.the_geom, c.the_geom)) ...
> NOTE: You will have to convert this area2d result from the units of your map projection into acres
>
> 3) ST_intersection and intersection are the same, the new (ST_*) naming convention was recently added, for reasons that I do not know but assume that they were good ones.
>
> HTH,
> Robert
>
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> Subject:	[postgis-users] Intersection - No GID
>
> Hi all,
>
> I figured out how to use Intersection and get a resulting table with 
> apparently correct results using the example from the PostGIS website:
>
> CREATE TABLE new_fields AS
>  SELECT
>    Intersection(f.the_geom, c.the_geom) AS the_geom,
>    f.attr1,
>    f.attr2,
>    c.clu_name
>  FROM
>    fields f,
>    clu c
>  WHERE
>    f.the_geom && c.the_geom
>  AND
>    Intersects(f.the_geom, c.the_geom)
>
> However, this example does not create a gid column and I therefore can 
> not view the results in a GIS program. Is there a way to create a gid 
> column after-the-fact?
>
> Optional questions for those feeling super-helpful:
>
> (1) How should the above SQL be rewritten to include gid in the 
> resulting table?
>
> (2) I know that eliminating the first line will simply give me a table 
> spit onto the SQL results in pgAdmin. How do I alter the SQL above to 
> give me the acreages rather then a list of the geometries? I can get the 
> acreages from the table resulting from the above, but I can't figure out 
> how to skip the step of creating a table.
>
> (3) What is the syntax using ST_Intersection rather than Intersection?
>
> thanks,
>
> Marcus
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