Name

box3d — A 3-dimensional bounding box. Used to describe the 3D extent of a geometry or collection of geometries.

Description

box3d is a postgis spatial data type used to represent the three-dimensional enclosing box of a geometry or collection of geometries. For example, the ST_3DExtent aggregate function returns a box3d object.

The representation contains the values xmin, ymin, zmin, xmax, ymax, zmax. These are the minimum and maxium values of the X, Y and Z extents.

Casting Behavior

This section lists the automatic as well as explicit casts allowed for this data type

Cast ToBehavior
boxautomatic
box2dautomatic
geometryautomatic

See Also

Section 14.7, “PostGIS Box Functions”