Name

geometry — Planar spatial data type.

Description

geometry is a fundamental PostGIS spatial data type used to represent a feature in the Euclidean coordinate system.

All spatial operations on geometry are using units of the Spatial Reference System the geomtry is in.

Casting Behavior

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

Cast ToBehavior
boxautomatic
box2dautomatic
box3dautomatic
byteaautomatic
geographyautomatic
textautomatic

See Also

Section 4.1, “GIS Objects”