-- -- BOX -- -- -- box logic -- o -- 3 o--|X -- | o| -- 2 +-+-+ | -- | | | | -- 1 | o-+-o -- | | -- 0 +---+ -- -- 0 1 2 3 -- -- boxes are specified by two points, given by four floats x1,y1,x2,y2 CREATE TABLE BOX_TBL (f1 box); INSERT INTO BOX_TBL (f1) VALUES ('(2.0,2.0,0.0,0.0)'); INSERT INTO BOX_TBL (f1) VALUES ('(1.0,1.0,3.0,3.0)'); -- degenerate cases where the box is a line or a point -- note that lines and points boxes all have zero area INSERT INTO BOX_TBL (f1) VALUES ('(2.5, 2.5, 2.5,3.5)'); INSERT INTO BOX_TBL (f1) VALUES ('(3.0, 3.0,3.0,3.0)'); -- badly formatted box inputs INSERT INTO BOX_TBL (f1) VALUES ('(2.3, 4.5)'); INSERT INTO BOX_TBL (f1) VALUES ('asdfasdf(ad'); SELECT '' AS four, * FROM BOX_TBL; SELECT '' AS four, b.*, area(b.f1) as barea FROM BOX_TBL b; -- overlap SELECT '' AS three, b.f1 FROM BOX_TBL b WHERE b.f1 && box '(2.5,2.5,1.0,1.0)'; -- left-or-overlap (x only) SELECT '' AS two, b1.* FROM BOX_TBL b1 WHERE b1.f1 &< box '(2.0,2.0,2.5,2.5)'; -- right-or-overlap (x only) SELECT '' AS two, b1.* FROM BOX_TBL b1 WHERE b1.f1 &> box '(2.0,2.0,2.5,2.5)'; -- left of SELECT '' AS two, b.f1 FROM BOX_TBL b WHERE b.f1 << box '(3.0,3.0,5.0,5.0)'; -- area <= SELECT '' AS four, b.f1 FROM BOX_TBL b WHERE b.f1 <= box '(3.0,3.0,5.0,5.0)'; -- area < SELECT '' AS two, b.f1 FROM BOX_TBL b WHERE b.f1 < box '(3.0,3.0,5.0,5.0)'; -- area = SELECT '' AS two, b.f1 FROM BOX_TBL b WHERE b.f1 = box '(3.0,3.0,5.0,5.0)'; -- area > SELECT '' AS two, b.f1 FROM BOX_TBL b -- zero area WHERE b.f1 > box '(3.5,3.0,4.5,3.0)'; -- area >= SELECT '' AS four, b.f1 FROM BOX_TBL b -- zero area WHERE b.f1 >= box '(3.5,3.0,4.5,3.0)'; -- right of SELECT '' AS two, b.f1 FROM BOX_TBL b WHERE box '(3.0,3.0,5.0,5.0)' >> b.f1; -- contained in SELECT '' AS three, b.f1 FROM BOX_TBL b WHERE b.f1 <@ box '(0,0,3,3)'; -- contains SELECT '' AS three, b.f1 FROM BOX_TBL b WHERE box '(0,0,3,3)' @> b.f1; -- box equality SELECT '' AS one, b.f1 FROM BOX_TBL b WHERE box '(1,1,3,3)' ~= b.f1; -- center of box, left unary operator SELECT '' AS four, @@(b1.f1) AS p FROM BOX_TBL b1; -- wholly-contained SELECT '' AS one, b1.*, b2.* FROM BOX_TBL b1, BOX_TBL b2 WHERE b1.f1 @> b2.f1 and not b1.f1 ~= b2.f1; SELECT '' AS four, height(f1), width(f1) FROM BOX_TBL;