> the OGC standard defines two geometry representations of spatial objects:
> WKB and WKT. Is it possible to define, in which of these formats the spatial
> objects are persisted in PostGIS or does PostGIS store them only in WKB
> format?
>
Hello

Postgis uses its own canonical format to store geometries internally:
EWKB (Extended WKB) containing geometry SRID.
You can always call astext(geom) or asbinary(geom) to get geometries
into WKT or WKB format.

HTH
Nicolas
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