On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Nick Raj <nickrajj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am writing some spatio-temporal function in postgis. > Like, ST_Enters( obj_geom, boundary_geom, time t1,time t2) > > For example- Does vehicle enters in ABC between time t1 to t2? > Let us suppose, i take only one object geometry at a time and do compare > then i could not produce the output because it is continous function of time > i.e. Enters is made up of Disjoint -> Touches -> Inside . > So, for creating this function, i require all the object's geometry before > it go inside the function. So that it can call only once. > > My first problem is that > create or replace function ST_Enters(????, geometry,timestamp,timestamp) > returns boolean ............ > > Which kind of data type to be used because i have to catch more than 1000 > rows and geometry[] doesn't work for it. > So, Can anyone tell me which data type can be used to catch this? > > Second, > How can i use this function in SQL? Because suppose i write query like > select ST_Enters ( obj_geom, (select boundary_geom from boundary), > '25/2/2011 12:23:32','26/2/2011') from vehicledata where vehicleid= 'XYZ'; > and again it comes out to be one object geometry matches with boundary > geometry, > if i store the inbetween data in some temp table then it creates a lot of > computation between the table and if it end up in between then table may > contains some wrong data. > So, How to use this function in SQL in continuous manner?? > > Thanks in advance.
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