Hi Romain, Assuming you have PostGIS installed and position is defined as a point or multpoint ADT then you could use the ST_Intersect operator
SELECT * FROM map WHERE ST_Intersects(position, 'MULTIPOINT(-1 -1,1 -1,1 1,-1 1)'); Regards Andrew On 2010-09-26, at 12:27 PM, Romain Billoir wrote: > Hi, i'm trying to request a database using data type "point" using keyword > "IN" with a list of point generated by PHP, like this: > 'SELECT * FROM map WHERE position IN ((point(-1,-1), (point(1,-1), > point(1,1), point(-1,1))' > but this request returns me an error: operator doesn't exist point = point. > so i tried to use a path unstead of list of point like this: > 'SELECT * FROM map WHERE position <@ path '(point(-1,-1), (point(1,-1), > point(1,1), point(-1,1))' > but this request returns me the point 0,0??? > > Is anybody have a suggestions? > > Thanks. Andrew Hunter PEng RPSurv PhD Assistant Professor Department of Geomatics Engineering Schulich School of Engineering University of Calgary T: +403.220.7377 F: +403.284.1980 E: ahunter (at) ucalgary (dot) ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~