Constructs a polygon from a text representation.
NEW ST_Polygon(text-representation[, srid])
text-representation
LONG VARCHAR
A string containing the text representation of a polygon. The input can be in any supported text input format, including WKT or EWKT.
srid
INT
The SRID of the result. If not specified, the default is 0.
Constructs a polygon from a character string representation. The database server determines the input format by inspecting the provided string.
SQL/MM (ISO/IEC 13249-3: 2006) 8.3.2
The following returns Polygon ((-5 -5, 5 -5, 0 5, -5 -5), (-2 -2, -2 2, 2 2, 2 -2, -2 -2))
SELECT NEW ST_Polygon('Polygon ((-5 -5, 5 -5, 0 5, -5 -5), (-2 -2, -2 2, 2 2, 2 -2, -2 -2))')