ERROR: could not identify an equality operator for type box

Hi there,

create table qq (b box);
CREATE TABLE
select count(*), b from qq group by b;
ERROR: could not identify an equality operator for type box
LINE 1: select count(*), b from qq group by b;

but following select works fine

select ' (43.6038,48.8664536),(1.3620777,1.44327)'::box = ' (43.6038,48.8664536),(1.3620777,1.44327)'::box;
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)
^
What does it means ?

Regards,
Oleg
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