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   box2d — A box composed of x min, ymin,  xmax, ymax.  Often used to return the 2d enclosing box of a geometry.
  
  
 
  
  
  
   Description
  
  
   box2d is a spatial data type used to represent the enclosing box of a geometry or set of geometries. ST_Extent in earlier versions prior to PostGIS 1.4 would return a box2d.