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On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 14:00:43 +0200,
  Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>       I have a table containing coordinates and I want to insert these 
>       into  another table, converting them to boxes.
> 
>       I would like to use the same syntax as arrays :
> 
>       INSERT INTO ... (coords) SELECT ARRAY[a,b,c] FROM ...
> 
>       But I want boxes. Is there a way to do this ?
> 
>       SELECT BOX[[a,b],[c,d]] FROM ...

You want something like box(point(a,b),point(c,d)) .


>       raises a Syntax Error.
>       And I'd like to avoid to concatenate strings to build a box  
> representation like
>       '((1,2),(3,4))'::box;
> 
>       Is there a way ?
> 
>       Thanks !
> 
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