Merkel Marcel wrote:

> I try to extract geometric data types from a postgre DB (7.4) with
> libpqxx. But I do not have much success.  I'd like to get the four
> floating points which formed the box as integers.  However I don't know
> how I can extract these four points from the result::field. It looks to
> me like it is a string. I could parse the string myself but I'm sure
> there is a better solution for that.

I'm afraid there isn't!  Arrays are not supported in libpqxx yet.
Floating-point values are, for what it's worth, but you'll have to extract
them from the array representation first.


> I solved a similar problem with the point data type by modifying the
> query :
> SELECT point[0], point[1] FROM ..,  gives me the two floats in seperate
> columns. But the same trick does not work for the box type. In that case
> I get two columns of type point.  I tried SELECT box[0][0] FROM ... to
> get one value of the box as a single column but that doesn't work.

That's a creative approach...  Why doesn't it work?  I haven't worked with
arrays in postgres yet, so I don't know much about them.


Jeroen





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