Saving javascript array into Postgres polygon field

Question

I'm having trouble trying to save a polygon that I have formatted like GeoJSON and the problem is that I've got the polygon as an array of arrays of coordinates but postgres polygon field is expecting an array of tuples but javascript doesn't have support for tuples and thus I can't figure out how to insert the data into Postgres.

Example of how postgres wants the data:

INSERT INTO table VALUES(default, '[(x,y), (x,y)]');

Example of the data i have:

"coordinates": [
          [
            [
              49.5703125,
              59.5343180010956
            ],
            [
              54.84375,
              54.77534585936447
            ],
            [
              63.28125,
              59.5343180010956
            ],
            [
              54.84375,
              61.77312286453146
            ],
            [
              49.5703125,
              60.930432202923335
            ],
            [
              49.5703125,
              59.5343180010956
            ]
          ]
        ]

Error that I've got when trying to save the array to postgres:

{
    "message": "invalid input syntax for type polygon: \"{{\"-64.1892249612655\",\"-31.4212119274207\"},{\"-64.1896863245919\",\"-31.4223122073094\"},{\"-64.1900957427429\",\"-31.423283040535\"},{\"-64.1901970936061\",\"-31.4235231632172\"},{\"-64.190677427225\",\"-31.4246610035708\"},{\"-64.1892249612655\",\"-31.4212119274207\"}}\"",
    "name": "QueryFailedError",
    "length": 353,
    "severity": "ERROR",
    "code": "22P02",
    "file": "float.c",
    "line": "542",
    "routine": "float8in_internal",
    "query": "INSERT INTO \"zones\"(\"title\", \"boundary_points\", \"created_at\", \"updated_at\", \"iconFileId\", \"backgroundFileId\") VALUES ($1, $2, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, $3, $4) RETURNING \"id\", \"created_at\", \"updated_at\"",
    "parameters": [
        "BAJO GENERAL PAZ",
        [
            [
                -64.1892249612655,
                -31.4212119274207
            ],
            [
                -64.1896863245919,
                -31.4223122073094
            ],
            [
                -64.1900957427429,
                -31.423283040535
            ],
            [
                -64.1901970936061,
                -31.4235231632172
            ],
            [
                -64.190677427225,
                -31.4246610035708
            ],
            [
                -64.1892249612655,
                -31.4212119274207
            ]
        ],
        null,
        null
    ]
}

Answer 1

Your GeoJSON polygon is invalid - it is missing the type: "type":"Polygon". If you want to store a GeoJSON polygon into a GEOMETRY column you should use ST_GeomFromGeoJson() in your INSERT INTO:

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE t (the_geom GEOMETRY);

INSERT INTO t (the_geom) VALUES (ST_GeomFromGeoJSON(
        '{"type":"Polygon",
          "coordinates": [
          [
            [49.5703125,59.5343180010956],
            [54.84375,54.77534585936447],
            [63.28125,59.5343180010956],
            [54.84375,61.77312286453146],
            [49.5703125,60.930432202923335],
            [49.5703125,59.5343180010956]
          ]
        ]}'::json));

SELECT ST_AsText(the_geom,2) FROM t;

                                     st_astext                                      
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 POLYGON((49.57 59.53,54.84 54.78,63.28 59.53,54.84 61.77,49.57 60.93,49.57 59.53))
(1 Zeile)

Further reading:

• GeoJSON documentation