[postgis-users] How to use AddBBox function

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

David R Robison wrote:

> I am unclear exactly how to use the addBBox funtion to cache the BBox 
> for my features. I tried
> 
> select addbbox(the_geom) from tablename;
> 
> but I'm not sure it did anything. Any help would be appreciated.
> David

Hi David,

All of the caching is handled automatically by PostGIS so you don't need 
to worry about it. In the 1.4 manual it's listed under "Exception 
Functions" which really means you don't want to be using it unless 
you're a developer.


HTH,

Mark.

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