[postgis-users] Vector Grid / Fishnet - ST_MakeEnvelope

[Andreas Forø Tollefsen]

Hi all.

I am currently developing a global vector grid from a set of centroid
points.
My data includes a csv file defining the x and y coordinate of each point.
These points are imported into a table. I then add a point geometry field
and apply the ST_MakePoint function to create the point features.
All well. However, the next step is to create a bounding box for each of the
points.
In other words, I want a vector cell of 0.5 decimal degrees surrounding each
point. I have tried using the ST_MakeEnvelope function as this allows me to
use the x and y coordinate, and subtract and add 0.25 to the centroid x and
y value.
However, I have not been able to use the ST_MakeEnvelope as i receive an
error.
I cannot figure out what i am doing wrong.

I have attached my sql below. Thanks for any help i might get.
-- CREATE TABLE points(
-- id int,
-- xcoord float,
-- ycoord float)

-- COPY points(ID,XCOORD,YCOORD)
-- FROM 'c:/postgis/pgpt.csv/pgpt.csv'
-- WITH DELIMITER AS ','
-- CSV HEADER;
-- 
-- ALTER TABLE points ADD PRIMARY KEY (id)

-- SELECT AddGeometryColumn('public', 'points', 'centroid', 4326, 'POINT',
2);
-- 

-- UPDATE points SET centroid=ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(xcoord, ycoord),
4326);
-- 
-- SELECT AddGeometryColumn('public', 'points', 'cell', 4326, 'POLYGON', 2);
-- 
-- UPDATE points SET
cell=ST_SetSRID(ST_MakeEnvelope(xcoord-0.25,ycoord-0.25,xcoord+0.25,ycoord+0.25,
4326));
-- 
This last line give me:

ERROR:  function st_setsrid(geometry) does not exist
LINE 20: UPDATE points SET cell=ST_SetSRID(ST_MakeEnvelope(xcoord-0.2...
                                ^
HINT:  No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need
to add explicit type casts.

********** Error **********

ERROR: function st_setsrid(geometry) does not exist
SQL state: 42883
Hint: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need
to add explicit type casts.
Character: 501
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