[5.7] Support "geometry" type in Postgres schema grammar #25323
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Benefit to end users: Ability to create
geography(geometry, 4326)
columns in Postgres using PostGis.Reasons it does not break any existing features: It removes a "not implemented" exception from being thrown and adds functionality only. Does not remove or alter any other functionality.
How it makes building web applications easier: Sometimes we may want to store multiple different types of geometries (e.g. POINT, POLYGON, etc) in the same column. This change allows us to do that.
See #21056 (comment) for in-depth analysis that prompted this PR.