When I create a spatial table in postgis with the following: CREATE TABLE points ( gid serial NOT NULL, point_type integer, the_geom geometry, CONSTRAINT enforce_dims_the_geom CHECK (ndims(the_geom) = 2), CONSTRAINT enforce_geotype_the_geom CHECK (geometrytype(the_geom) = 'POINT'::text OR the_geom IS NULL), CONSTRAINT enforce_srid_the_geom CHECK (srid(the_geom) = 4326) ) WITHOUT OIDS; ALTER TABLE points OWNER TO postgres; insert into points(point_type, the_geom) values (0,SetSRID(MakePoint(50,50),4326)) I cannot create a featureType for this table because Geoserver reports: The FeatureType 'point' has a NULL extent. HINT: the dataset is empty or has no default geometry attribute.