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ST_Touches

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

This predicate checks if two geometries touch.

create.select(
  stTouches(
    stGeomFromText("LINESTRING (-1 0, -1 1, -2 1, -2 2)"),
    stGeomFromText("LINESTRING (-1 1, -2 0)")
  ),
  stTouches(
    stGeomFromText("LINESTRING (1 0, 1 1, 2 1, 2 2)"),
    stGeomFromText("LINESTRING (1 2, 0 1)")
  )
).fetch();

The result being, for example

+------------+------------+
| ST_Touches | ST_Touches |
+------------+------------+
| true       | false      |
+------------+------------+

Or, visually:










Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

stTouches(geometry1, geometry2)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DuckDB, MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake

st_touches(geometry1, geometry2)

Oracle

((st_touch(geometry1, geometry2) = 'TRUE'))

SQLServer

geometry1.STTouches(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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