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Extending HCL OneDB™Beyond standard relational database objects, HCL OneDB™ can be extended to handle specialized data types, access methods, routines, and other objects. HCL OneDB™ includes many built-in extensions that are fully integrated in the database server. HCL OneDB™ also provides DataBlade® modules, which are packages of extended database objects for a particular purpose and that are installed separately from the database server. Alternatively, you can create your own user-defined objects for HCL OneDB™.
HCL OneDB™ extensions and DataBlade® modulesThese topics describe how to use built-in database extensions and separately installed DataBlade® modules.
Spatial Data User's GuideThe HCL OneDB™ Spatial Data User's Guide contains information to assist you in using the HCL® OneDB® spatial extension. The HCL® OneDB® spatial extension adds custom data types and supporting routines to the server.
Spatial data typesHCL® OneDB® spatial data types are divided into two categories: the base geometry subclasses and the homogeneous collection subclasses.
Locale overrideThe external text representation of double-precision numbers in spatial data types follows the U.S. English locale (en_us.8859-1). In this standard, all text input must use dots ( . ) as decimal separators and must be single-byte ASCII, regardless of the locale. (Internally, the database server overrides the current locale with the U.S. English locale.)

Locale override

The external text representation of double-precision numbers in spatial data types follows the U.S. English locale (en_us.8859-1). In this standard, all text input must use dots ( . ) as decimal separators and must be single-byte ASCII, regardless of the locale. (Internally, the database server overrides the current locale with the U.S. English locale.)

For example, in many European locales, the decimal separator is a comma. You can keep using a non-English locale, but you must use dots in all text input, as follows:

ST_PointFromText('point zm (10.01 20.04 3.2 9.5)', 1)

This is true even if in your locale you normally use 3,2 instead of 3.2. External text always contains dots, regardless of the locale.