[postgis-users] SRID confusion

[Kevin Neufeld]

pcreso at pcreso.com wrote:
> select srid(hole), astext(hole) from hole_multi;
> 
> I get:
> 
>  4326 | MULTIPOLYGON(SRID=0;((55.78 ....
> 

Er?  This is not a valid WKT string.  Is this a typo?  It's no doubt 
QGIS can't parse this.

AsEWKT, as Regina mentions, produces "SRID=0;MULTI..."
AsText should just produce "MULTIPOLYGON(((55.78 ..."

How did you ever get this into the database?

Cheers,
-- Kevin