[postgis-devel] overlaps left

Kevin Neufeld kneufeld at refractions.net
Wed Jan 21 14:44:09 PST 2009


Typo.. that was &<

Kevin Neufeld wrote:
> The docs said that &> returned true if the bounding boxes overlap OR is 
> to the left of ...
> 
> That doesn't seem to be the case:
> SELECT tbl1.column1, tbl2.column1,
>   tbl1.column2 && tbl2.column2 AS overlaps,
>   tbl1.column2 &< tbl2.column2 AS overlapsleft
> FROM
>   ( VALUES
>     (1, 'LINESTRING( 1 2, 4 6 )'::geometry)) AS tbl1,
>   ( VALUES
>     (2, 'LINESTRING( 0 0, 3 3 )'::geometry)) AS tbl2;
> 
>  column1 | column1 | overlaps | overlapsleft
> ---------+---------+----------+--------------
>        1 |       2 | t        | f
> (1 row)
> 
> 
> -- Kevin
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