Cannot populate Feature Points or colors using database values

[terraserver]

I am trying to dynamically produce a circle. This layer works fine:

LAYER

NAME "testlayer" STATUS DEFAULT DEBUG ON TYPE circle

FEATURE

POINTS

-78.61515 35.75584 -78.66222 35.78759

END

END

CLASS

NAME test COLOR 0 0 255 OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0

END # CLASS

END # LAYER

However, when I try to dynamically populate the values I get these errors:

loadFeaturePoints(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error near (atrb_linestyle):(line 128)

OR

getSymbol(): Symbol definition error. Parsing error near (atrb_linecolor):(line 130)

With this layer

LAYER

NAME 'drawtest' STATUS DEFAULT DEBUG ON TYPE circle

CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS CONNECTION "dbname=project1 user=Admin password= host=localhost port=5432"

DATA "geom from (select geom, atrb_linestyle, atrb_linewidth, atrb_linecolor from ts_drawings_test where drawing_id = %drwl%) as myquery using unique geom using SRID=4269"

FEATURE

POINTS [atrb_linestyle] END

#POINTS -78.61515 35.75584 -78.66222 35.78759 END

END

CLASS

NAME test

COLOR [atrb_linecolor] #COLOR 255 255 0

OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0

END # CLASS

END # LAYER

[sdlime]

What you are trying to do, or more importantly how you are trying to do it won't work. You don't need to use inline features if you have a datasource available to you. Have you tried turning your atrb_linstyle into a geometry object "on-the-fly" in PostGIS? That's the way to proceed. You need to create a line geometry the two points and render that with TYPE CIRCLE in MapServer.

The COLOR modification you're trying needs to happen in a style:

CLASS

NAME test STYLE

COLOR [atrb_linecolor] OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0

END

END

Steve

BTW Marking the bug as invalid...