--- title: "ST_GeometryFromText" draft: false hidden: true ---

Name

ST_GeometryFromText — Return a specified ST_Geometry value from Well-Known Text representation (WKT). This is an alias name for ST_GeomFromText

Synopsis

geometry ST_GeometryFromText ( text WKT ) ;

geometry ST_GeometryFromText ( text WKT , integer srid ) ;

Description

This method implements the OGC Simple Features Implementation Specification for SQL 1.1.

This method implements the SQL/MM specification. SQL-MM 3: 5.1.40

See Also

ST_GeomFromText