updated documention on addgeometrycolumn, clarifying the errors thrown.

git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@3498 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee

diff --git a/doc/reference_new.xml b/doc/reference_new.xml
index f689535dc3bf524ae1db4be962fdc77494413130..270727b566d097b4a484b8213e772c09afa60de7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/reference_new.xml
+++ b/doc/reference_new.xml
@@ -106,7 +106,9 @@
         must be an integer value reference to an entry in the SPATIAL_REF_SYS
         table. The <varname>type</varname> must be an uppercase string
         corresponding to the geometry type, eg, 'POLYGON' or
-        'MULTILINESTRING'.</para>
+        'MULTILINESTRING'.  An error is thrown if the schemaname doesn't exist 
+        (or not visible in the current search_path) or the specified SRID, 
+        geometry type, or dimension is invalid.</para>
                
                <note>
                        <para>Views and derivatively created spatial tables will need to be registered in geometry_columns manually,