Re: "IN" in a geometric database using data type "point"

[Andrew Hunter <ahunter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Romain,

Assuming you have PostGIS installed and position is defined as a point or multpoint ADT then you could use the ST_Intersect operator

SELECT *

FROM map

WHERE ST_Intersects(position, 'MULTIPOINT(-1 -1,1 -1,1 1,-1 1)');

Regards

Andrew

On 2010-09-26, at 12:27 PM, Romain Billoir wrote:

Hi, i'm trying to request a database using data type "point" using keyword "IN" with a list of point generated by PHP, like this:

'SELECT * FROM map WHERE position IN ((point(-1,-1), (point(1,-1), point(1,1), point(-1,1))'

but this request returns me an error: operator doesn't exist point = point.

so i tried to use a path unstead of list of point like this:

'SELECT * FROM map WHERE position <@ path '(point(-1,-1), (point(1,-1), point(1,1), point(-1,1))'

but this request returns me the point 0,0???

Is anybody have a suggestions?

Thanks.

Andrew Hunter PEng RPSurv PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Geomatics Engineering

Schulich School of Engineering

University of Calgary

T: +403.220.7377

F: +403.284.1980

E: ahunter (at) ucalgary (dot) ca

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