[postgis-users] how many vertices in a linestring

[Maxime van Noppen]

Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. wrote:
> exactly. thnx. by the way: what's the difference between st_numpoints()
> and st_npoints()? The results in my case are the same

>From the doc of ST_NumPoints :

« From 1.4 forward this is an alias for ST_NPoints which returns number
of vertexes for not just line strings. Consider using ST_NPoints instead
which is multi-purpose and works with many geometry types. »

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Maxime