ST_AsText
Applies to ❌ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
This function produces the WKT (Well-known text representation of geometry). For example:
create.select(stAsText(stGeomFromText("POLYGON ((-1 -1, 1 -1, 1 1, -1 1, -1 -1))"))).fetch();
The result being, for example
+-------------------------------------------+ | ST_GeomFromText | +-------------------------------------------+ | POLYGON ((-1 -1, 1 -1, 1 1, -1 1, -1 -1)) | +-------------------------------------------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
stAsText(geometry)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake
st_astext(geometry)
Oracle
(geometry).Get_WKT()
SQLServer
geometry.STAsText()
ASE, Access, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DB2, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MemSQL, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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