And adding a ST_DumpSegments function would help make this (and other uses
cases) simpler as well.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 2:51 PM Martin Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Good find.  And yes, the only approach currently that seems viable is to
> iterate over the segments in some way and select the closest.
>
> Nowadays using LATERAL JOIN might make this a bit simpler.
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 1:43 PM Bruce Rindahl <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I found this post from a few years back by Paul Ramsey:
>>
>> http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2015/02/breaking-linestring-into-segments.html
>>
>> One of the examples gives a collection of each segment of the line along
>> with what you can use as an index.  Could you then query for the closest
>> geometry from that collection and get the index number?
>> Sorry, I can't test right now as my pgadmin is not working.
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