ST_NumPatches — Return the number of faces on a Polyhedral Surface. Will return null for non-polyhedral geometries.
integer ST_NumPatches(geometry  g1);
Return the number of faces on a Polyhedral Surface. Will return null for non-polyhedral geometries. This is an alias for ST_NumGeometries to support MM naming. Faster to use ST_NumGeometries if you don't care about MM convention.
Disponibilità: 2.0.0
            
 Questa funzione supporta il 3d e non distrugge gli z-index. 
            
 Questo metodo implementa le OGC Simple Features Implementation Specification for SQL 1.1. 
            
 Questo metodo implementa la specifica SQL/MM.  SQL-MM ISO/IEC 13249-3: 8.5
            
 Questa funzione supporta le Polyhedral Surface. 
SELECT ST_NumPatches(ST_GeomFromEWKT('POLYHEDRALSURFACE( ((0 0 0, 0 0 1, 0 1 1, 0 1 0, 0 0 0)),
                ((0 0 0, 0 1 0, 1 1 0, 1 0 0, 0 0 0)), ((0 0 0, 1 0 0, 1 0 1, 0 0 1, 0 0 0)),
                ((1 1 0, 1 1 1, 1 0 1, 1 0 0, 1 1 0)),
                ((0 1 0, 0 1 1, 1 1 1, 1 1 0, 0 1 0)), ((0 0 1, 1 0 1, 1 1 1, 0 1 1, 0 0 1)) )'));
                --result
                6