What does "is empty" mean?

Bud — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 23:13:32 GMT

ArcGIS Pro 2.6.8; Oracle 18c; 10.7.1 EGDB; SDE.ST_GEOMETRY

Regarding the isEmpty ST_GEOMETRY SQL function:

ST_IsEmpty returns 1 (Oracle and SQLite) or t (PostgreSQL) if the ST_Geometry object is empty; otherwise, it returns 0 (Oracle and SQLite) or f (PostgreSQL).

It seems like an empty geometry can either be:

Shape is not null, and geometry is not null (geometry is Nil/zero-vertex), or
Shape is not null, but geometry is null

In other words, the shape is not null, and the geometry is either zero-vertex or null.

Is that correct?

SQL testing:

select
    objectid,
    shape,
    (shape).points as geometry,
    sde.st_area(shape) as area,
    sde.st_isempty(shape) as is_empty,
    comment3,
    (shape).entity,
    sde.st_entity(shape),
    (shape).numpts
from
    infrastr.inf_record_sp

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What does "is empty" mean?