[postgis-users] WKT expected, EWKT provided

Peter Willis pwillis at aslenv.com
Tue May 11 13:56:21 PDT 2010


Mike Toews wrote:
> On 11 May 2010 12:04, Peter Willis <pwillis at aslenv.com> wrote:
>> How many dimensions is postgis WKT now expecting for 'POLYGON'?
> 
> OGC WKT has only 2 dimensions while EWKT has up to 4.
> 
>> Ps.
>> I thought to search your mailing list archives but they don't appear
>> to be search-able. Is there any way to search the mail list archives
>> other than by downloading every compressed file and using
>> zcat and fgrep ?
> 
> You'd think it should be easy to do:
> http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2008-December/022098.html
> 
> -Mike
> 
> 
> 


Hi Mike,

Thanks for the location of the mail list search.
(I must be blind <sigh!>)

I am entering 2D polygons so from where would postgis be warning
about EWKT entry? The error must be internal to the postgresql
library module. Is this a versioning problem between sub-libraries
of postgis?

P





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