[postgis-users] PostgreSQL geometric data types vs GEOMETRY data type

[Bborie Park]

Correct. PostGIS supports PostGIS datatypes.

-bborie


On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Peter Len <peteralen at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I am using PostgreSQL 9.1 with PostGIS.  I am still doing a lot of
> documentation reading but have the following question....  PostgreSQL comes
> with some default geometric datatypes like POINT and POLYGON.  I created a
> couple of tables with these types and added some data.  After installing
> PostGIS, I came to find an example of creating a table with a GEOMETRY
> column.  It then went on to show the use of the PostGIS ST_GeomFromText
> method.  That worked fine on my test table that I created with the
> GEOMETRY(Point) data type but did not work on the table with just the POINT
> data type.  So.....  to use the PostGIS methods/functions, do the spatial
> columns need to be defined as GEOMETRY / GEOGRAPHY rather than the
> PostgreSQL data types of POINT, POLYGON, etc?
>
> Thanks - Peter
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