On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 16:09 +0200, Malm Paul wrote: > > Hi, I have not found any description of the binary format of polygons, > points etc.. is there any? > > I would like to select objects of an Postgis feature type an save them > into a propiatary graphic format. > I can do it with: Select astext... > But I imagine that it will be faster to get the selection set in a > binaryformat, or? > > Kind regards, > > Paul Malm
Do a "SELECT AsBinary(the_geom) FROM geom_table". AsBinary() returns the OGC-standard Well Known Binary (WKB) format. See the OGC website to download the standards documents for the WKB format and much more. ATB, Mark. -- ILande - Open Source Consultancy http://www.ilande.co.uk _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
