<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Hi,</DIV>
<DIV> I'm working in planar coordinates. I have a Postgis database and </DIV>
<DIV>for starters I want to limit my attention to all geometries that intersect a given rectangle (the "selection").</DIV>
<DIV>I can imagine that one could enumerate all geometries and ask in each case if they </DIV>
<DIV>intersect the rectangle, but that doesnt seem very efficient, so what do you suggest?</DIV>
<DIV>I only need general guidance so I can look at the various parts of the doc.</DIV>
<DIV>Later I'll be wanting to clip the geometies with this selection.</DIV>
<DIV>Still later I'll want to consider polygonal selections.</DIV>
<DIV>By the way I'm accessing the PostGis database via LibPQ and have written my application </DIV>
<DIV>in Qt.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanking you in advance</DIV>
<DIV>Henri</DIV>
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