Name

geography — Ellipsoidal spatial data type.

Description

geography is a spatial data type used to represent a feature in the round-earth coordinate system.

Casting Behavor

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

Cast ToBehavior
geometryexplicit

See Also

Section 8.3, “PostGIS Geography Support Functions”,Section 4.2, “PostGIS Geography Type”