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

[Obe, Regina]

How are you determining that the geometry field is null 

are you actually doing a 

SELECT * FROM blah where the_geom is NULL

If you are looking at it from say PgAdminIII, it may look blank.  That's
just a limitation in PgAdminIII - not in PostGIS.  

If you do a 

SELECT ST_NumGeometries(the_geom)
from blah

on those blank ones - if it returns a number you should be fine. 

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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:50 PM
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Subject: [postgis-users] Does geometry field type have a size limit?


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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