postgis 0.5.0

rust-postgis
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An extension to rust-postgres, adds support for PostGIS.

- PostGIS type helper
- GCJ02 support (used offically in Mainland China)
- Tiny WKB (TWKB) support

## Usage

```rust
use postgres::{Connection, TlsMode};
use postgis::ewkb;
use postgis::LineString;

fn main() {
    // conn ....
    for row in &conn.query("SELECT * FROM busline", &[]).unwrap() {
        let route: ewkb::LineString = row.get("route");
        let last_stop = route.points().last().unwrap();
        let _ = conn.execute("INSERT INTO stops (stop) VALUES ($1)", &[&last_stop]);
    }
}
```

Handling NULL values:
```rust
let route = row.get_opt::<_, Option<ewkb::LineString>>("route");
match route.unwrap() {
    Ok(Some(geom)) => { println!("{:?}", geom) }
    Ok(None) => { /* Handle NULL value */ }
    Err(err) => { println!("Error: {}", err) }
}
```

## Writing other geometry types into PostGIS

rust-postgis supports writing geometry types into PostGIS which implement the following traits:

* `Point`, `LineString`, ...
* `AsEwkbPoint`, `AsEwkbLineString`, ...

See the TWKB implementation as an example.

An example for reading a TWKB geometry and writing it back as EWKB:

```rust
use postgis::twkb;
use postgis::LineString;

for row in &conn.query("SELECT ST_AsTWKB(route) FROM busline", &[]).unwrap() {
    let route: twkb::LineString = row.get(0);
    let last_stop = route.points().last().unwrap();
    let _ = conn.execute("INSERT INTO stops (stop) VALUES ($1)", &[&last_stop.as_ewkb()]);
}
```


## Unit tests

Unit tests which need a PostgreSQL connection are ignored by default.
To run the database tests, declare the connection in an environment variable `DBCONN`. Example:

    export DBCONN=postgresql://user@localhost/testdb

Run the tests with

    cargo test -- --ignored