<title>The GEOMETRY_COLUMNS VIEW</title>
<para>In versions of PostGIS prior to 2.0.0, geometry_columns was a table that could be directly edited, and sometimes got out of synch with the actual definition of the geometry columns.
- In PostGIS 2.0.0, <varname>GEOMETRY_COLUMNS</varname> became a view with the same front-facing structure as prior versions, but not reading from database system catalogs
- It's structure is as follows:</para>
+ In PostGIS 2.0.0, <varname>GEOMETRY_COLUMNS</varname> became a view with the same front-facing structure as prior versions, but reading from database system catalogs
+ Its structure is as follows:</para>
<programlisting>\d geometry_columns</programlisting>
<screen> View "public.geometry_columns"