[postgis-users] Converting Multilinestrings to Linestrings

[strk]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 02:57:09AM -0700, Leigh Holcombe wrote:

> Is there a way to force linestring data to be imported as a linestring instead
> of as a multilinestring? 

Yes, shp2pgsql -S

> Is there a way to transform all the multilinestrings in a dataset into linestrings? 

1. Drop the type constraint (enforce_geotype_xxxx)
2. Update the geometries
3. Re-insert the type constraint
4. Update the geometry_columns record


> Is there a way to convert a multilinestring into a linestring easily and quickly
> on the fly (I'm doing PHP/LAPP programming)? 

ST_GeometryN(the_geom, 1) gives you the first LINESTRING of the (pseudo)set.

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