Individually your observation does not hold. Testing the literals pairwise returns true in all cases.
select st_intersects('SRID=4326;POLYGON((-71.0004167 43.0004167,-69.9995833 43.0004167,-69.9995833 41.9995833,-71.0004167 41.9995833,-71.0004167 43.0004167))', 'srid=4326;POLYGON((-70.70785443115230 42.61915358272220,-71.42814556884760 42.61915358272220,-71.42814556884760 42.11182215470750,-70.70785443115230 42.11182215470750,-70.70785443115230 42.61915358272220))'); You'll have to make a data table available that shows this behavior for others to help. Best, Paul On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:35 PM, DrYSG <ygutfre...@draper.com> wrote: > I am sure this is my faulty understanding. > > I have been noticing that some EPSG4326 polygons are only being found only > in a smaller search bbox, not in a larger search bbox. Even though the > larger box is entirely bigger on all sides (I actually get the bbox from > Google Maps). I am using ST_INTERSECTS. > > There are many others missing also (all items are rectangular bboxes) , here > are two: > > SRID=4326;POLYGON((-72.0004167 43.0004167,-70.9995833 43.0004167,-70.9995833 > 41.9995833,-72.0004167 41.9995833,-72.0004167 43.0004167)) > > SRID=4326;POLYGON((-71.0004167 43.0004167,-69.9995833 43.0004167,-69.9995833 > 41.9995833,-71.0004167 41.9995833,-71.0004167 43.0004167)) > > Here is the smaller query that finds them: > > SELECT * FROM portal.catalog cat WHERE > ST_Intersects(st_geomfromtext('POLYGON((-70.88792721557620 > 42.49270487579740,-71.24807278442380 42.49270487579740,-71.24807278442380 > 42.23903905725250,-70.88792721557620 42.23903905725250,-70.88792721557620 > 42.49270487579740))'::text, 4326), cat.poly) LIMIT 3800; > > (this query returns 447 matches) > > and here is the outset larger bbox search that somehow does not find these > contained polygons (but it does find many more new ones: > > SELECT * FROM portal.catalog cat WHERE > ST_Intersects(st_geomfromtext('POLYGON((-70.70785443115230 > 42.61915358272220,-71.42814556884760 42.61915358272220,-71.42814556884760 > 42.11182215470750,-70.70785443115230 42.11182215470750,-70.70785443115230 > 42.61915358272220))'::text, 4326), cat.poly) LIMIT 3800; > > This one finds 1545 records > > (FYI cat.poly is a *geometry*, which always has a rectangular *polygon * in > it. > > > (Therefore I do NOT suspect the LIMIT statement, since I am not near the > limit) > > I have also tried a similar SQL query, and it returns the same record counts > but has the same issue: > > String sql = String.Format("SELECT * FROM portal.catalog cat > WHERE st_geomfromtext('{0}'::text, 4326) && cat.poly LIMIT 3800;", poly); > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://postgis.17.n6.nabble.com/ST-Intersects-not-finding-everythng-tp4998091.html > Sent from the PostGIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users