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ST_PolyFromText

ST_PolyFromText

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NOTE: Spatial type for Oracle only

Definition

ST_PolyFromText takes a well-known text representation of type ST_Polygon and a spatial reference ID and returns an ST_Polygon.

Syntax

sde.st_polyfromtext (wkt clob, srid integer)

Return type

ST_Polygon

Example

The polygon_test table is created with the single polygon column.

CREATE TABLE polygon_test (pl1 sde.st_geometry);

The INSERT statement inserts a polygon into the polygon column using the ST_PolyFromText function.

INSERT INTO polygon_test VALUES (
sde.st_polyfromtext ('polygon ((10.01 20.03, 10.52 40.11, 30.29 41.56,
31.78 10.74, 10.01 20.03))', 0)
);

See Also

  • An overview of SQL functions used with ST_Geometry types