[postgis-users] linestring limits

[Clay, Bruce]

Is there a limit to the number of points or character linelengh that can be used to create a linestring?
 
I used QGis to trace some roads then exported the layer as a KML file.  I wrote a script to create a table and add attributes to the table then copied the coordinates from the KML into the script after manipulating the punctuation and white space.  When I open the attributes table only some of the lines showed geometry.  I played with the script for a while and it seemd like there was a limit to somewhere around 4,000 characters.  It did not seem to be a hard limit at 4,000 but it was pretty close.
 
If there is a limit is there a way to change the configuration to get past this?  Some of the strings used with STY_GeomFromText where around 7,000 characters.
 
Bruce



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