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A GEOMETRYCOLLECTION is a collection of heterogeneous spatial objects, such as Points, LineStrings, Polygons, or other GEOMETRYCOLLECTIONs. It provides a way of referring to a group of spatial objects as one "thing" so that you can operate on it/them more conveniently using various SQL functions.
Examples
A GeometryCollection can be created from SQL by calling the st_geomfromtext function on a GeometryCollection definition expressed in the Well Known Text (WKT) format as shown below.
SELECT ST_GeomFromText('GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POINT(0 0), LINESTRING(0 0, 1440 900), POLYGON((0 0, 0 1024, 1024 1024, 1024 0, 0 0)))');
st_geomfromtext
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0107000000030000000101000000000000000000000000000000000000000102000000020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000008096400000000000208C40010300000001000000050000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000009040000000000000904000000000000090400000000000009040000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
(1 row)
See also
- Spatial objects
- POINT
- LINESTRING
- POLYGON
- MULTIPOINT
- MULTILINESTRING
- MULTIPOLYGON
- Introducing Distributed Spatial Data in Free, Open Source CockroachDB (blog post)
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