Update section 4.2 of docs to describe manual adding to geometry columns

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From: Brian Hamlin maplabs@… Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:37 PM To: Obe, Regina Cc: David Bitner Subject: AddGeometryColumn() docs Hi Regina-

I am working on oge2ogr a bit .. and discovered with the new

1.6_trunk version, you can use a view as an ogr datasource. In order to see the view, you can add a tables=view1 in the dsn, or just manually add a geometry_columns entry for the view. This works great, I believe it is then a first class citizen with an SRS.

But apparently AddGeometryColumns() won't execute for a view. So we

were discussing an addition in section 4.2.2/4.2.3 of the manual to talk a little bit about adding a geometry column entry manually..

On the ogr2ogr side, I want to describe the technique in the pg

driver 'man' page…

I think this is a really important new feature of ogr.

-Brian

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Added a new section for manual registration of tables and views. Also referenced this new section in the AddGeometryColumn reference