ST_GEOMETRYFROMWKB

Introduced or updated: v1.2.395

Parses a WKB(well-known-binary) or EWKB(extended well-known-binary) input and returns a value of type GEOMETRY.

Syntax

ST_GEOMETRYFROMWKB(<string>, [<srid>])
ST_GEOMETRYFROMWKB(<binary>, [<srid>])

Aliases

• ST_GEOMFROMWKB
• ST_GEOMETRYFROMEWKB
• ST_GEOMFROMEWKB

Arguments

Arguments	Description
<string>	The argument must be a string expression in WKB or EWKB in hexadecimal format.
<binary>	The argument must be a binary expression in WKB or EWKB format.
<srid>	The integer value of the SRID to use.

Return Type

Geometry.

Examples

SELECT
  ST_GEOMETRYFROMWKB(
    '0101000020797f000066666666a9cb17411f85ebc19e325641'
  ) AS pipeline_geometry;

┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
│            pipeline_geometry           │
├────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ SRID=32633;POINT(389866.35 5819003.03) │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘

SELECT
  ST_GEOMETRYFROMWKB(
    FROM_HEX('0101000020797f000066666666a9cb17411f85ebc19e325641'), 4326
  ) AS pipeline_geometry;

┌───────────────────────────────────────┐
│           pipeline_geometry           │
├───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ SRID=4326;POINT(389866.35 5819003.03) │
└───────────────────────────────────────┘