Reference material for ST_GEOGFROMWKB function
GEOGRAPHY
object from a Well-Known Binary (WKB) byte string. The extended WKB format is supported only for Spatial Reference Identifier (SRID) 4326, which corresponds to the WGS84 coordinate system.
Normalization and invalid input handling are applied as descibed in the GEOGRAPHY type documentation.
Parameter | Description | Supported input types |
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<WKB> | WKB representation of the GEOGRAPHY object. | BYTEA |
ST_GEOGFROMWKB
returns a value of type GEOGRAPHY
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GEOGRAPHY
data type from a WKB byte string and converts it to WKT format:
result (TEXT) |
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‘POINT(-73.98551041593687 40.75793403395676)’ |