PostGIS
Name
ST_AsEWKB — Return the Extended Well-Known Binary (EWKB) representation of the geometry with SRID meta data.
Synopsis
bytea +`*`+ST_AsEWKB*(`geometry `g1`)`;
bytea +`*`+ST_AsEWKB*(`geometry `g1, text NDR_or_XDR`)`;
Description
Returns the Extended Well-Known Binary (EWKB) representation of the geometry with SRID metadata. The first function variant defaults to encoding using server machine endian. The second function variant takes a text argument specifying the endian encoding, either little-endian ('NDR') or big-endian ('XDR').
WKB format is useful to read geometry data from the database and maintaining full numeric precision. This avoids the precision rounding that can happen with text formats such as WKT.
To perform the inverse conversion of EWKB to PostGIS geometry use ST_GeomFromEWKB.
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Enhanced: 2.0.0 support for Polyhedral surfaces, Triangles and TIN was introduced.
This
function supports 3d and will not drop the z-index.
This
method supports Circular Strings and Curves.
This
function supports Polyhedral surfaces.
This
function supports Triangles and Triangulated Irregular Network Surfaces
(TIN).
Examples
SELECT ST_AsEWKB(ST_GeomFromText('POLYGON((0 0,0 1,1 1,1 0,0 0))',4326));
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\x0103000020e610000001000000050000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000f03f000000000000f03f000000000000f03f000000000000f03f00000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000 SELECT ST_AsEWKB(ST_GeomFromText('POLYGON((0 0,0 1,1 1,1 0,0 0))',4326), 'XDR');
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\x0020000003000010e600000001000000050000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
003ff00000000000003ff00000000000003ff00000000000003ff000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000