Geometry column - invalid representation

Bug report

Describe the bug

When creating a geometry data type column, its representation is looking odd. It shows a random capital letter string such as: 0101000020E61000002C64AE0CAA0129409F1CAACE0FF34440

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior, please provide code snippets or a repository:

1. Create a table
2. Add a geometry data type column with: SELECT AddGeometryColumn ('','geometries','geom',4326,'POINT',2);
3. Insert records to the table with the geometry column as ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(lng, lat), 4326)
4. See the table editor in order to find the column representation.

Expected behavior

A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.

Screenshots

It shows like this:

But should show something like:

System information

• OS: Windows 10
• Browser: Chrome

Additional context

Followed this tutorial to get the column as I wanted.

[steve-chavez]

You can use SELECT st_asgeojson(location) FROM tbl to get the representation you want.

https://postgis.net/docs/ST_AsGeoJSON.html

invalid representation

Not really invalid, it’s the geometry type default representation, which has to be converted to other formats to be human-readable.

http://postgis.net/workshops/postgis-intro/geometries.html#geometry-input-and-output

[soedirgo]

I think it’s as Steve mentioned above, it’s the default presentation for geometry (can be confirmed with select st_point(1,1)::geometry in psql).

Making it more user-friendly from the dashboard side might be a lot of work (e.g. need to parse the format) but as a user I would just add a generated column like so:

alter table geometries add column geom_display text generated always as (st_asgeojson(geom)) stored;