ST_Contains
Applies to ❌ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
This predicate checks if a geometry contains another geometry.
create.select(
stContains(
stGeomFromText("POLYGON ((-3 -1, -1 -1, -1 1, -3 1, -3 -1))"),
stGeomFromText("POINT (-2 0)")
),
stContains(
stGeomFromText("POLYGON ((3 -1, 1 -1, 1 1, 3 1, 3 -1))"),
stGeomFromText("POINT (4 0)")
)
).fetch();
The result being, for example
+-------------+-------------+ | ST_Contains | ST_Contains | +-------------+-------------+ | true | false | +-------------+-------------+
Or, visually:
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
stContains(geometry1, geometry2)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DuckDB, MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake
st_contains(geometry1, geometry2)
Oracle
((st_contains(geometry1, geometry2) = 'TRUE'))
SQLServer
geometry1.STContains(geometry2) = 1
ASE, Access, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DB2, Derby, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MemSQL, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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