I have a generated column with type spoint in my table which seems to be preventing me from using the \copy command to load data.

I get the error:

ERROR: no binary input function available for type point

I have investigated the problem for a few hours, and it seems that the cause is pgsphere not implementing binary input for this type. An equivalent insert statement using test data works fine, so I don't think there is any fundamental problem with my data or how the generated column is working.

I would really like to get \copy working with my tables which use these generated columns having a definition like:

ALTER TABLE "MyTable" ADD COLUMN radec spoint GENERATED ALWAYS AS (spoint(radians(ra), radians(dec))) STORED;

To work around this, I would have to use less desirable methods like copying from staging tables, using insert commands instead, etc. and I would lose the efficiency of the bulk copy operation.

Any insight or advice would be appreciated, thanks!