[postgis-users] The_geom is empty

Wed Oct 1 02:22:18 PDT 2008

Denis Rykov wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> Please, help me. I export my data from shapefile to PostGIS. When I open 
> pgAdmin, one of fields "the_geom" is empty, but this object are 
> displayed in QGIS and spatially functions return correct results. Why?
> 
> Thanks.

It's a bug in pgAdmin - geometries above a certain number of bytes 
cannot be displayed. However you can verify that they exist correctly 
using psql.

ATB,

Mark.

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