No. Bands are referenced by index in PostGIS. Your idea of using an extra column for the band names is probably your best solution.
-bborie On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia da <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello list > > I'm taking my first steps in PostGIS rasterland. > > I have a large set of multiband rasters to store. It would be very handy to > refer to bands using a descriptive name (for example band1: LST, band2: > Error, etc) but from what I've been reading, it doesn't seem to be possible > to give each band a specific name and I must refer to bands by their number. > Is it really like this? > > If this is not possible, what would you advise as an alternative? > - Storing only single band rasters in their own tables? This defeats the > purpose of having multibands. > - Using an extra column in the table, with the names of each band? > - Other? > > Thanks > > -- > ___________________________ ___ __ > Ricardo Garcia Silva > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
