[postgis-users] update xy field

[Schweitzer, Peter]

I don't know whether this is the only way to do it, but I would do

select AddGeometryColumn ('APDinternal','Incidents','geom',2264,'POINT',2);

then do your update command--I think that part is correct.

Peter


On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Ed Eads <eeads at ashevillenc.gov> wrote:
> All,
>
>
>
> I have xy data in a PostgreSQL table and was able to add a geom column.
>
> The issue showed up when I then attempted to update the geom column with the
> xy values.
>
> I want to transform from xy values to a gis-enabled table. Any assistance is
> appreciated. Thanks - Ed
>
>
>
> ALTER TABLE "APDinternal"."Incidents"
>
> ADD COLUMN geom geometry(POINT,2264);
>
> UPDATE "APDinternal"."Incidents" SET geom =
> ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(Xinc,Yinc),2264);
>
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