Hi Marco,
ST_DWithin(geometry, geometry, float)

Returns true if geometries are within the specified distance of one another.
Uses indexes if available.

HTH,
Fred




On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. <
[email protected]> wrote:

> hi list,
>
> we are using within(geometry, geometry) to test if some (~1200) points
> are within a polygon. the polygon is defined as buffer(linegeometry,
> dist). the problem is, that the line is always the same and therefore
> the result of buffer(linegeometry, dist)  is always the same. while
> iterating through the points the within() calculates the
> buffer(linegeometry) each time again. the function takes 40s. instead of
> 0.04s if i calculate the buffergeometry first and use it as "fixed
> geometry" at within() - is this somehow improvable (within() recognizing
> such a behaviour?, ...)?
>
> Marco
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