Registering a spatial table with the geodatabase containing the subclass ST_LineString or ST_Polygon for the shape column fails with an error, “Invalid entity type”.

Last Published: March 26, 2015

ArcSDE/Enterprise Geodatabase

Bug ID Number	BUG-000082808
Submitted	January 22, 2015
Last Modified	April 2, 2025
Applies to	ArcSDE/Enterprise Geodatabase
Version found	10.2.2
Version Fixed	10.3.1
Status	Fixed

Workaround

Option ACreate the spatial table with ST_Geometry. Option BCopy and paste the feature class registers with the geodatabase, but this changes the storage type. For an instance, if the spatial table is originally ST_LineString, it changes to ST_MultiLineString.