From 218d88265abe93bed741c13da53796e34c648f72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Regina Obe Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:50:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@4514 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee --- doc/using_postgis_dataman.xml | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/using_postgis_dataman.xml b/doc/using_postgis_dataman.xml index 613684bbc..313c3ec2a 100644 --- a/doc/using_postgis_dataman.xml +++ b/doc/using_postgis_dataman.xml @@ -176,7 +176,8 @@ geometry The main restriction is that it only supports WGS 84 long lat (SRID:4326). It uses a new data type called - geography. + geography. It also has a much fewer set of functions than the geometry type. None of the GEOS functions support this new + type. As a workaround one can convert back and forth between geometry and geography types. The new geography type uses the PostgreSQL 8.3+ typmod definition format so that a table with a geography field can be added in a single step. All the standard OGC formats except for curves are supported. -- 2.50.0