Créer une géotable :
CREATE TABLE test (id serial PRIMARY KEY, genre text); SELECT AddGeometryColumn( 'test', 'the_geom', -1, 'GEOMETRY', 2 );
Alimenter la table avec quelques géométries en dur et pas vraiment “spatiales” (SRS = -1 !!):
INSERT INTO test VALUES ( 3, 'batiment1', ST_GeometryFromText( 'POLYGON((10 10,40 20,35 8,12 4,10 10))', -1 ) ); INSERT INTO test VALUES ( 4, 'batiment2', ST_GeometryFromText( 'POLYGON((10 40,20 30,30 40,40 35,50 60,35 80,20 60,10 40))', -1 ) ); INSERT INTO test VALUES ( 5, 'batiment3', ST_GeometryFromText( 'POLYGON((10 95,20 95,20 135,10 135,10 95))', -1 ) ); INSERT INTO test VALUES ( 1, 'pieton1', ST_GeometryFromText( 'POINT(10 70)', -1 ) ); INSERT INTO test VALUES ( 2, 'pieton2', ST_GeometryFromText( 'POINT(30 30)', -1 ) ); INSERT INTO test VALUES ( 6, 'pieton3', ST_GeometryFromText( 'POINT(35 70)', -1 ) ); INSERT INTO test VALUES ( 7, 'pieton4', ST_GeometryFromText( 'POINT(35 60)', -1 ) ); INSERT INTO test VALUES ( 8, 'bordureRoute1', ST_GeometryFromText( 'LINESTRING(1 85,50 85)', -1 ) ); INSERT INTO test VALUES ( 9, 'bordureRoute2', ST_GeometryFromText( 'LINESTRING(1 92,50 92)', -1 ) );
(→ cf. documentation PostGIS Reference)
Cf. 2
select ST_Area(the_geom) from test where GeometryType(the_geom) = 'POLYGON';
select ST_distance((select the_geom from test where genre = 'pieton2'), the_geom) as dist from test where genre <> 'pieton2' order by dist limit 1
Mais on doit faire mieux, sans le order by !
select genre from test as t1 where t1.genre <> 'batiment2' and ST_Within( t1.the_geom, (select t2.the_geom from test as t2 where t2.genre = 'batiment2') )
(source: Jean David Techer)