[Geoserver-users] Re: postgis and geoserver problems

Gavin Fleming wrote:

Hi Jody
We are running Geoserver 1.3.0 beta2 and PostGIS on Postgres8. We're trying to exploit WFS-T and WMS. The WFS-T is working fairly well, though we're having major problems trying to get any postgis point (point or multipoint) features to render in WMS. I've tried all sorts of variations in the SLD docs but to no avail. Are there any tricks or good documentation or known problems?

The most common problem with sld is the difference between "feature" and "Feature". I think that Dave Blasby is starting to gather a list of tricks and tips. Perhaps we can ask him to start making a section in the geoserver wiki for such.

When you describe "no avail" I am not quite sure what the problem is. Here are a couple of ideas:
- an service exception returned rather than an image
- a horrible stack trace in in the geoserver logs
- an empty image

I assume you have made a PointSymbolizer? And have specified shape, outline and fill?
We use the same rendering code in uDig and are able to work with points. I will add a check for working with points from Postgis to my list.

Jody