[postgis-devel] Optimizing contains/within

[Robert W. Burgholzer]

Chris,
Perhaps your objection could be satisfied by the function contains(geometry,
geometry[]), which would then only have to return the single result for each
containing geometry.

I am not saying that the already implemented solution is not better, but the
array option would not require the index.

r.b.

Quoting Chris Hodgson <chodgson at refractions.net>:

> Robert W. Burgholzer wrote:
>  > Chris/others,
>  > Can't you simply use function overloading, such as the following
> (don't know if
>  > geometry[] is really the proper way to indicate and array of geometries):
>  >
>  > CREATE FUNCTION contains(geometry[],geometry[])
>  >    RETURNS boolean
>  >    AS 'C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/lib/liblwgeom.dll'
>  >    LANGUAGE 'C' IMMUTABLE STRICT; -- WITH (isstrict,iscachable);
>  >
>  > to avoid the confusion that would arise from having to create a separate
>  > function like "points_in_polys"?
>  >
>  > r.b.
>
> I suppose you could, but that doesn't solve the problem of dealing with
> the 2d array of results that the function would have to return. Ie. for
> every pair of geometries in the inputs, does the left contain the right?
> Thats a lot of answers out of one function, and you can't use it in a
> "normal" query to get other columns of information included in the
> result. All in all it isn't really a realistic option, but is the only
> alternative I could think of to the somewhat more complicated (and
> apparently already implemented) second solution I mentioned.
>
> Chris
>
>
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