ST_Centroid
Applies to ❌ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
This function calculates the geometric center of mass of a geometry.
create.select(stCentroid(stGeomFromText("POLYGON ((-1 -1, 1 -1, 1 1, -1 1, -1 -1))"))).fetch();
The result being, for example
+-------------+ | ST_Centroid | +-------------+ | POINT (0 0) | +-------------+
Or, visually:
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
stCentroid(geometry)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DuckDB, MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake
st_centroid(geometry)
Oracle
sdo_geom.sdo_centroid(geometry, tol => null)
SQLServer
geometry.STCentroid()
ASE, Access, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DB2, Databricks, Derby, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MemSQL, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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