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ST_MultiPolygon

ST_MultiPolygon

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Definition

ST_MultiPolygon constructs a multipolygon feature from a well-known text representation.

Syntax

Oracle

sde.st_multipolygon (wkt clob, srid integer)

PostgreSQL

st_multipolygon (wkt, srid integer)
st_multipolygon (esri_shape bytea, srid integer)

Return type

ST_MultiPolygon

Example

Oracle

CREATE TABLE mpoly_test (id integer, geometry sde.st_geometry);

INSERT INTO mpoly_test VALUES (
1110,
sde.st_multipolygon ('multipolygon (((3 3, 4 6, 5 3, 3 3),(8 24, 9 25, 1 28, 8 24), (13 33, 7 36, 1 40, 10 43, 13 33)))', 0)
);

SELECT id, sde.st_astext (geometry) MULTI_POLYGON
FROM mpoly_test
WHERE id = 1110; 

ID      MULTI_POLYGON

1110    MULTIPOLYGON (((13.00000000 33.00000000, 10.00000000 43.00000000,
        1.00000000 40.00000000, 7.00000000 36.00000000,
        13.00000000 33.00000000)),((8.00000000 24.00000000, 9.00000000 
        25.00000000, 1.00000000 28.0000000, 8.00000000 24.00000000)),
        ((3.00000000 3.00000000, 5.00000000 3.00000000,
        4.00000000 6.00000000, 3.00000000 3.00000000)))

PostgreSQL

CREATE TABLE mpoly_test (id integer, geometry st_geometry);

INSERT INTO mpoly_test VALUES (
1110,
st_multipolygon ('multipolygon (((3 3, 4 6, 5 3, 3 3), (8 24, 9 25, 1 28, 8 24), (13 33, 7 36, 1 40, 10 43, 13 33)))', 0)
);

SELECT id, st_astext (geometry) AS MULTI_POLYGON
FROM mpoly_test
WHERE id = 1110; 

id      multi_polygon

1110    MULTIPOLYGON (((13 33, 10 43, 1 40, 7 36, 13 33)),
((8 24, 9 25, 1 28, 8 24)), ((3 3, 5 3, 4 6, 6 6)))

See Also

  • An overview of SQL functions used with ST_Geometry types