PostGIS Support and Constraints

PostGIS extension of MogDB supports the following data types:

box2d
box3d
geometry_dump
geometry
geography

Supported Operators and Functions

Table 1 Operators and functions supported by PostGIS Extension

Category	Function
Management Functions	AddGeometryColumn, DropGeometryColumn, DropGeometryTable, PostGIS_Full_Version, PostGIS_GEOS_Version, PostGIS_Liblwgeom_Version, PostGIS_Lib_Build_Date, PostGIS_Lib_Version, PostGIS_PROJ_Version, PostGIS_Scripts_Build_Date, PostGIS_Scripts_Installed, PostGIS_Version, PostGIS_LibXML_Version, PostGIS_Scripts_Released, Populate_Geometry_Columns, UpdateGeometrySRID
Geometry Constructors	ST_BdPolyFromText, ST_BdMPolyFromText, ST_Box2dFromGeoHash, ST_GeogFromText, ST_GeographyFromText, ST_GeogFromWKB, ST_GeomCollFromText, ST_GeomFromEWKB, ST_GeomFromEWKT, ST_GeometryFromText, ST_GeomFromGeoHash, ST_GeomFromGML, ST_GeomFromGeoJSON, ST_GeomFromKML, ST_GMLToSQL, ST_GeomFromText, ST_GeomFromWKB, ST_LineFromMultiPoint, ST_LineFromText, ST_LineFromWKB, ST_LinestringFromWKB, ST_MakeBox2D, ST_3DMakeBox, ST_MakeEnvelope, ST_MakePolygon, ST_MakePoint, ST_MakePointM, ST_MLineFromText, ST_MPointFromText, ST_MPolyFromText, ST_Point, ST_PointFromGeoHash, ST_PointFromText, ST_PointFromWKB, ST_Polygon, ST_PolygonFromText, ST_WKBToSQL, ST_WKTToSQL
Geometry Accessors	GeometryType, ST_Boundary, ST_CoordDim, ST_Dimension, ST_EndPoint, ST_Envelope, ST_ExteriorRing, ST_GeometryN, ST_GeometryType, ST_InteriorRingN, ST_IsClosed, ST_IsCollection, ST_IsEmpty, ST_IsRing, ST_IsSimple, ST_IsValid, ST_IsValidReason, ST_IsValidDetail, ST_M, ST_NDims, ST_NPoints, ST_NRings, ST_NumGeometries, ST_NumInteriorRings, ST_NumInteriorRing, ST_NumPatches, ST_NumPoints, ST_PatchN, ST_PointN, ST_SRID, ST_StartPoint, ST_Summary, ST_X, ST_XMax, ST_XMin, ST_Y, ST_YMax, ST_YMin, ST_Z, ST_ZMax, ST_Zmflag, ST_ZMin
Geometry Editors	ST_AddPoint, ST_Affine, ST_Force2D, ST_Force3D, ST_Force3DZ, ST_Force3DM, ST_Force4D, ST_ForceCollection, ST_ForceSFS, ST_ForceRHR, ST_LineMerge, ST_CollectionExtract, ST_CollectionHomogenize, ST_Multi, ST_RemovePoint, ST_Reverse, ST_Rotate, ST_RotateX, ST_RotateY, ST_RotateZ, ST_Scale, ST_Segmentize, ST_SetPoint, ST_SetSRID, ST_SnapToGrid, ST_Snap, ST_Transform, ST_Translate, ST_TransScale
Geometry Outputs	ST_AsBinary, ST_AsEWKB, ST_AsEWKT, ST_AsGeoJSON, ST_AsGML, ST_AsHEXEWKB, ST_AsKML, ST_AsLatLonText, ST_AsSVG, ST_AsText, ST_AsX3D, ST_GeoHash
Operators	&&, &&&, &<, &<\|, &>, <<, <<\|, =, >>, @ , \|&> , \|>>, ~, ~=, <->, <#>
Spatial Relationships and Measurements	ST_3DClosestPoint, ST_3DDistance, ST_3DDWithin, ST_3DDFullyWithin, ST_3DIntersects, ST_3DLongestLine, ST_3DMaxDistance, ST_3DShortestLine, ST_Area, ST_Azimuth, ST_Centroid, ST_ClosestPoint, ST_Contains, ST_ContainsProperly, ST_Covers, ST_CoveredBy, ST_Crosses, ST_LineCrossingDirection, ST_Disjoint, ST_Distance, ST_HausdorffDistance, ST_MaxDistance, ST_DistanceSphere, ST_DistanceSpheroid, ST_DFullyWithin, ST_DWithin, ST_Equals, ST_HasArc, ST_Intersects, ST_Length, ST_Length2D, ST_3DLength, ST_Length_Spheroid, ST_Length2D_Spheroid, ST_3DLength_Spheroid, ST_LongestLine, ST_OrderingEquals, ST_Overlaps, ST_Perimeter, ST_Perimeter2D, ST_3DPerimeter, ST_PointOnSurface, ST_Project, ST_Relate, ST_RelateMatch, ST_ShortestLine, ST_Touches, ST_Within
Geometry Processing	ST_Buffer, ST_BuildArea, ST_Collect, ST_ConcaveHull, ST_ConvexHull, ST_CurveToLine, ST_DelaunayTriangles, ST_Difference, ST_Dump, ST_DumpPoints, ST_DumpRings, ST_FlipCoordinates, ST_Intersection, ST_LineToCurve, ST_MakeValid, ST_MemUnion, ST_MinimumBoundingCircle, ST_Polygonize, ST_Node, ST_OffsetCurve, ST_RemoveRepeatedPoints, ST_SharedPaths, ST_Shift_Longitude, ST_Simplify, ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology, ST_Split, ST_SymDifference, ST_Union, ST_UnaryUnion
Linear Referencing	ST_LineInterpolatePoint, ST_LineLocatePoint, ST_LineSubstring, ST_LocateAlong, ST_LocateBetween, ST_LocateBetweenElevations, ST_InterpolatePoint, ST_AddMeasure
Miscellaneous Functions	ST_Accum, Box2D, Box3D, ST_Expand, ST_Extent, ST_3Dextent, Find_SRID, ST_MemSize
Exceptional Functions	PostGIS_AddBBox, PostGIS_DropBBox, PostGIS_HasBBox

Spatial Indexes

PostGIS extension of MogDB supports Generalized Search Tree (GIST) spatial indexes (except for partitioned tables). Different from B-tree indexes, GiST indexes are adaptable to all kinds of irregular data structures, which can effectively improve the retrieval efficiency for geometry and geographic data.

Run the following command to create a GiST index:

MogDB=# CREATE INDEX indexname ON tablename USING GIST ( geometryfield );

Extension Constraints

Only row-store tables are supported.
Topology (object management module) and Raster (grid data processing module) are not supported.
BRIN indexes are not supported.
The spatial_ref_sys table can only be queried during scale-out.