[postgis-users] Does geometry field type have a size limit?

[Tom Glancy]

I agree with Rob - pgadmin can hide the geometry.
 
Try: 
select char_length(asText(the_geom)) from <TABLE> where gid = <MISSING_GEOM_GID>;
On a test here, the select returned 137999 even though pgadmin looked blank.
 
Or double-click the "missing" the_geom cell in pgadmin.
 
Regards,
Tom
 

>>> "Rob Tester" <robtester at gmail.com> 3/12/2008 12:32 PM >>>
Is it that the geometry is actually null? 

Don't rely on pgadmin and the data view to believe the field is null. For
large geometries when viewing with pgadmin, they can appear to be null
because of the way strings are handled in the extensions and not show a
value in the pgadmin data view.

Does "select * where wkb_geometry is NULL;" Return the records that you
believe are null from the insert?

I have geometries with more than 1400 points stored without any problems,
but I use ogr2ogr to import geometry files.

Rob.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Paul
Ramsey
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:14 AM
To: PostGIS Users Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Does geometry field type have a size limit?

There is no limit to the geometry field size (well, no practical limit
http://www.postgresql.org/about/, 1Gb) .

Send me your shape file to confirm if your problem is repeatable.

P.

On 3/12/08, davidj2k <davidj2k at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  I am trying to convert several of my .shp files to the PostGIS database
and
>  when it inserts some of the larger polygons it fails to insert the
geometry
>  field value.
>  I tried it using the shp2pgsql and I tried it using my own code in C# and
I
>  have even tried executing the SQL in the pgAdmin III Query function and
all
>  three have the exact same results the record gets inserted but the
geometry
>  field is null and it only happens on those records that have a lot of
points
>  that make up the polygon, I created several test to try and determine how
>  many points were too much for it and I hit upon 1365 seemed to be the
amount
>  that was too many.
>  Does anybody know if there is a limitation to the geometry field and if
>  there is how can I increase it?
>
>  Thank You
>
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