Name

ST_AsHEXEWKB — Returns the Extended Well-Known Binary (EWKB) representation, in hexadecimal, of a Geometry object.

Synopsis

varchar ST_AsHEXEWKB(bytea Geometry);

varchar ST_AsHEXEWKB(bytea Geometry, varchar byteorder XDR/NDR);

Alias

AsHEXEWKB

Description

Returns the Extended Well-Known Binary (EWKB) representation, in hexadecimal, of a Geometry object.

The byteorder parameter may be either NDR or XDR. If no encoding is specified, the default value is NDR.

NDR indicates Network Data Representation, also known as little-endian encoding.

XDR represents External Data Representation, also known as big-endian encoding.

Coordinate Dimensions
2D3DM
Spatial Standards Support
OGC SFS for SQL. 1.1 (1999)OGC SFS for SQL. 1.1.0 (2005)OGC SFS for SQL. 1.2.0 (2006)SQL-MM Part 3
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Examples

SELECT ST_AsHEXEWKB(ST_GeomFromText('POINT(1 1 1)',25830));
                            st_ashexewkb
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 01010000A0E6640000000000000000F03F000000000000F03F000000000000F03F
(1 row)

SELECT ST_AsHEXEWKB(ST_GeomFromText('POINT(1 1 1)',25830),'XDR');
--Result
00A0000001000064E63FF00000000000003FF00000000000003FF0000000000000

Related functions

ST_AsBinary