TO_GEOMETRY

Introduced or updated: v1.2.431

Parses an input and returns a value of type GEOMETRY.

TRY_TO_GEOMETRY returns a NULL value if an error occurs during parsing.

Syntax

TO_GEOMETRY(<string>, [<srid>])
TO_GEOMETRY(<binary>, [<srid>])
TO_GEOMETRY(<variant>, [<srid>])
TRY_TO_GEOMETRY(<string>, [<srid>])
TRY_TO_GEOMETRY(<binary>, [<srid>])
TRY_TO_GEOMETRY(<variant>, [<srid>])

Arguments

Arguments	Description
<string>	The argument must be a string expression in WKT, EWKT, WKB or EWKB in hexadecimal format, GeoJSON format.
<binary>	The argument must be a binary expression in WKB or EWKB format.
<variant>	The argument must be a JSON OBJECT in GeoJSON format.
<srid>	The integer value of the SRID to use.

Return Type

Geometry.

Examples

SELECT
  TO_GEOMETRY(
    'POINT(1820.12 890.56)'
  ) AS pipeline_geometry;

┌───────────────────────┐
│   pipeline_geometry   │
├───────────────────────┤
│ POINT(1820.12 890.56) │
└───────────────────────┘

SELECT
  TO_GEOMETRY(
    '0101000020797f000066666666a9cb17411f85ebc19e325641', 4326
  ) AS pipeline_geometry;

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

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

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

SELECT
  TO_GEOMETRY(
    '{"coordinates":[[389866,5819003],[390000,5830000]],"type":"LineString"}'
  ) AS pipeline_geometry;

┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐
│             pipeline_geometry             │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ LINESTRING(389866 5819003,390000 5830000) │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┘

SELECT
  TO_GEOMETRY(
    PARSE_JSON('{"coordinates":[[389866,5819003],[390000,5830000]],"type":"LineString"}')
  ) AS pipeline_geometry;

┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐
│             pipeline_geometry             │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ LINESTRING(389866 5819003,390000 5830000) │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┘