Having a generic GEOGRAPHY column with PostGIS
问题 In PostgreSQL 9 + PostGIS 1.5, is there a way to create a "generic" GEOGRAPHY column? By that I mean a column that would accept POINTs as well as POLYGONs, LINESTRINGs, etc. Until now, I've only seen columns like GEOGRAPHY(POINT,4326) on the Internet. If that is not possible, then how would you design (from a DB point of view) an entity that is linked to a random geographical object (point, polygon, whatever)? Should I create 3, 4, 5 different tables for each type of geographical object I'd