geometry

geometry
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geometry — Planar spatial data type.

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.

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