[postgis-users] question about GEOMETRY_COLUMNS

[George R. C. Silva]

Em segunda-feira, 19 de setembro de 2011 12:54:29, Szymon Guz escreveu:
> Hi,
> what is the GEOMETRY_COLUMNS table for?
> Is there any other reason other that standard compliance?
> Which functions use this table?
>
> I'm asking because I've noticed that my databases work even when there 
> are no entries there.
>
>
> regards
> Szymon
>
>
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The database will work, but some GIS softwares, like QGIS, uDIG, gvSIG 
will depend on that table to render data as maps.

george