[postgis-users] simplify a linestring to n points

[richard -rw- weinberger]

hi!

2008/11/24 Obe, Regina <robe.dnd at cityofboston.gov>:
> I'm curious why you want to do this?

our databases holds a lot of
linestrings with more than 5000 points. these linestrings are
processed by external tools.
a few of this (crappy) tools can only handle linestrings with 500 or
less points.

cheers,
//richard