[postgis-users] How to create a point geometry from two text fields?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

update mytable set the_geom=st_setsrid(st_makepoint(lon,lat),4326);

On 3/25/2011 10:44 AM, Gis Mage wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a table with two text fields "lat" and "long" of character
> varying type.
> I've created a field the_geom with type geometry.
>
> How do I calculate the_geom field with an sql query?
> The table is huge - about 1.5 million records, so I think the fastest
> way to do this is to use pointfromtext function, but I can't figure out
> how to put in the values of "lat" and "long" fields inside function
> arguments.
>
> Can anyone help me out?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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