-- The mlinestring_test table is created with the gid smallint column -- that uniquely identifies the row and the ml1 ST_MultiLineString column. CREATE TABLE mlinestring_test (gid smallint, ml1 ST_MultiLineString); -- The INSERT statement inserts the ST_MultiLineString with the -- ST_MLineFromText function. INSERT INTO mlinestring_test VALUES( 1, ST_MLineFromText('multilinestring((10.01 20.03,10.52 40.11,30.29 41.56,31.78 10.74),(20.93 20.81, 21.52 40.10))', 1000) )