"Obe, Regina" <robe.dnd at cityofboston.gov> writes: > But for MULTIPOLYGONs and single geom constructs, we don't have double > quotes. Why do we have quotes here. I don't know the context, but that output looks a bit like it's a composite type --- if so, it's expected that double quotes are used only if needed. See the PG docs regarding the I/O format for composite types. regards, tom lane