Though I am not conversant with the details of the GIS fundas, here is
my observationtheir application gave a very good pointer to people
who always wanted to do custom field development. I wouldn't be happy
to see SQL statements be used in the class (even though it gets the
work because I
> In PostGIS, the AddGeometryColumn() function needs to be run separately
> after the create table. It adds the geometry field to the table, adds
> its definition (projection, geometry type, dimensions) to the
> 'geometry_columns' table, creates a number of constraints, etc.
Thanks, Rob, for the
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 11:47 -0500, Joseph Kocherhans wrote:
> On 5/29/07, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Malcolm's _get_field_sql() question is a good one -- I'm +1 on adding
> > that method to the fields. Only thing is, does _get_field_sql() get
> > passed the database
Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> GIS guys, any particular reasons for the approach you took? -- laziness?
> economy? "it works, dammit!"? technical reason against the above?
>
In PostGIS, the AddGeometryColumn() function needs to be run separately
after the create table. It adds the geometry field
On 5/29/07, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Malcolm's _get_field_sql() question is a good one -- I'm +1 on adding
> that method to the fields. Only thing is, does _get_field_sql() get
> passed the database backend?
If the method is going in, I think passing in the db backend would
On 5/29/07, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hadn't heard back from Adrian yet; I want to make sure to have his OK.
>
> I'll let the GIS folks answer your question about _get_field_sql(); my
> impression is that PostGIS at least makes you declare GIS fields
> *after* you declare
On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 01:53 -0500, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote:
> On 5/26/07, Justin Bronn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We encountered a similar problem on the GIS branch. Specifically, the
> > OpenGIS specification requires that compliant spatial databases add
> > geometry columns by calling the
