On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 07:16:15AM -0500, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote:

> Thanks for confirming the above. However, per my follow-up email (see 
> http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2011-July/030366.html),
>  I am not getting the interior rings as polygons. They are coming out as 
> LINESTRINGs. Shouldn't the indivdual components of the MULTIPOLYGON be 
> POLYGONs?

Individual components of MULTIPOLYGONs are POLYGONs.
You get them with ST_GeometryN.
Components of POLYGONs are RINGs.
Ring are represented as closed LINESTRINGS, following OGC spec.
You can make polygons out of closed LINESTRINGs using ST_MakePolygon.

--strk;

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