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ST_Intersects

Applies to ❌ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

This predicate checks if a geometry intersects another geometry. For example:

create.select(
  field(stIntersects(
    stGeomFromText("LINESTRING (-3 -1, -1 1)"), 
    stGeomFromText("LINESTRING (-1 -1, -3 1)")
  )),
  field(stIntersects(
    stGeomFromText("LINESTRING (1 -1, 1 1)"), 
    stGeomFromText("LINESTRING (3 -1, 3 1)")
  ))
).fetch();

The result being, for example

+---------------+---------------+
| ST_Intersects | ST_Intersects |
+---------------+---------------+
| true          | false         |
+---------------+---------------+

Or, visually:










Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

stIntersects(geometry1, geometry2)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, COCKROACHDB, MARIADB, MYSQL, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE
st_intersects(geometry1, geometry2)

-- ORACLE
(sdo_geom.sdo_intersection(geometry1, geometry2, tol => null)).sdo_gtype IS NOT NULL

-- SQLSERVER
geometry1.STIntersects(geometry2) = 1

-- ACCESS, ASE, BIGQUERY, DB2, DERBY, DUCKDB, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, MEMSQL, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, 
-- SQLITE, SYBASE, TERADATA, TRINO, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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