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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>this works : SELECT ('name', ST_GeogFromText('POINT(121.560800 29.901200)'))::place;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Olivier<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> postgis-users [mailto:postgis-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>De la part de</b> Glen Huang<br><b>Envoyé :</b> samedi 21 avril 2018 12:19<br><b>À :</b> postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Objet :</b> [postgis-users] How to specify PostGIS geography value in a composite type literal?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I asked this question on SO (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49954323/how-to-specify-postgis-geography-value-in-a-composite-type-literal">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49954323/how-to-specify-postgis-geography-value-in-a-composite-type-literal</a>)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>but didn’t get much attention. I wonder if someone here could shed some light. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Here is the question:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;caret-color: rgb(36, 39, 41)'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#242729'>I have a custom composite type:<o:p></o:p></span></p><pre style='background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;max-height: 600px;word-wrap: normal;overflow:auto'><span class=kwd><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#101094;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>CREATE</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> TYPE place </span></span><span class=kwd><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#101094;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>AS</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>(</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><o:p></o:p></span></span></pre><pre style='background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> name text</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>,</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><o:p></o:p></span></span></pre><pre style='background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> location geography</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>(</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>point</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>,</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span></span><span class=lit><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#7D2727;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>4326</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>)</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><o:p></o:p></span></span></pre><pre style='background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>);</span></span><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:#393318'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;caret-color: rgb(36, 39, 41)'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#242729'>I want to create a value of that type using a composite literal:<o:p></o:p></span></p><pre style='background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;max-height: 600px;word-wrap: normal;overflow:auto'><span class=kwd><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#101094;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>SELECT</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>$$(</span></span><span class=str><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#7D2727;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>"name"</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>,</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span></span><span class=str><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#7D2727;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>"ST_GeogFromText('POINT(121.560800 29.901200)')"</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>)$$::</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>place</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>;</span></span><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:#393318'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;caret-color: rgb(36, 39, 41)'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#242729'>This fails with:<o:p></o:p></span></p><pre style='background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;max-height: 600px;word-wrap: normal;overflow:auto'><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>HINT</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>:</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span></span><span class=str><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#7D2727;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>"ST"</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><</span></span><span class=com><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#858C93;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>-- parse error at position 2 within geometry</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><o:p></o:p></span></span></pre><pre style='background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>ERROR</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>:</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> parse error </span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>-</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> invalid geometry</span></span><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:#393318'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;caret-color: rgb(36, 39, 41)'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#242729'>But this executes just fine:<o:p></o:p></span></p><pre style='background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;max-height: 600px;word-wrap: normal;overflow:auto'><span class=kwd><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#101094;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>SELECT</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> ST_GeogFromText</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>(</span></span><span class=str><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#7D2727;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>'POINT(121.560800 29.901200)'</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>);</span></span><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:#393318'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;caret-color: rgb(36, 39, 41)'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#242729'>I wonder what's the correct way to specify PostGIS geography value in a composite type literal?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br /> <table style="border-top: 1px solid #D3D4DE;">
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