On 3/16/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Robin Ericsson" <lobbin@gmail.com> writes:
> > Yes, I've looked at those, I was thinking that point looked like a
> > good type, but it's only 2d, so maybe I need a hint on how to use this
> > in a 3d environment.
>
> Yeah, the built-in geometric types are all 2D. If you need 3D, perhaps
> PostGIS can help --- otherwise you're on your own :-(. But adding a new
> datatype to PG isn't hard, if you can hack C at all.
My hope was that there was something between standard PostgreSQL and
PostGIS as I didn't want to bring in the whole PostGIS into my
application. But probably it's worth it anyways.
--
regards,
Robin
