Name

geometry — The type representing spatial features with planar coordinate systems.

Description

geometry is a fundamental PostGIS spatial data type used to represent a feature in planar (Euclidean) coordinate systems.

All spatial operations on geometry use the units of the Spatial Reference System the geometry 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”, Section 14.3, “PostGIS SQL-MM Compliant Functions”