Different GEO representations

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geometry and geography are geographic data types from the extension PostGIS and point is a PostgreSQL geometric data type. If you're planing to store latitude and longitude values I suggest you to use PostGIS, as it provides plenty of handy functions out of the box and it is very easy to use.

The binary value you're seeing is a WKB (Well Known Binary) representation of the geometry - standard representation. There are many other ways to serialize geometries.

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