From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: David <de4@kent.ac.uk>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: arrays and polygons
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:02:39 -0500
Message-ID: <2252.1076684559@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001e01c3f21b$a8c0eb00$2d650c81@ad.kent.ac.uk>
References: <001e01c3f21b$a8c0eb00$2d650c81@ad.kent.ac.uk>
"David" <de4@kent.ac.uk> writes:
> ALTER TABLE species ADD COLUMN location polygon[];
> INSERT INTO species (location) VALUES ('{((432,89), (45,87), (89,87)),
> ((54,78), (34,98))};
I think you'd need to double-quote each polygon within the array
literal.
'{"((432,89), (45,87), (89,87))", "..."}'
The array parser doesn't think parens are special, so it's not going to
magically distinguish array commas from polygon commas for you.
BTW, if you are using 7.4, the ARRAY[] constructor syntax might be
easier to use.
regards, tom lane
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