[postgis-users] help setting up postgis

[Jan Saalbach]

Nicolas,
you made my day. Absolutely amazing how fast and precise your help is.  
Thank you very much.

Guess I will be using ST_AsEWKT() instead of the AsText function for now.

Thank you again.

Jan



Zitat von Nicolas Ribot <nicolas.ribot at gmail.com>:

>> Hello
>> st_astext is an OGC function supporting only 2D geometries.
>> To get the textual representation of the real object, use st_asewkt
>> (extended version of WKT, supporting more dimensions and SRID):
>>
>
> Hmm, I'm not very clear:
> st_astext drops third and fourth dimensions when outputing its results.
> The geometry itself still keeps its dimension (3D, here).
>
> Nico
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