OK. This needs more work than anticipated. Looks like the Query object only 
supports unary and binary operators. Give me a little more time. ;-)

On Monday, 9 December 2013 12:21:37 UTC-6, User wrote:
>
> Thanks.  This is what I see at line 2983 in dal.py:
>
>     def ST_DWITHIN(self, first, second):
>         """
>         http://postgis.org/docs/ST_Within.html
>         """
>         return 'ST_DWithin(%s,%s)' %(self.expand(first), 
> self.expand(second, first.type))
>
>
> The proper documentation is at http://postgis.org/docs/ST_DWithin.html (note 
> the 'D').  Also looks like this is missing the 3rd argument to ST_DWithin:
>
> boolean *ST_DWithin*(geometry g1, geometry g2, double precision 
> distance_of_srid);
>
>
> On Sunday, December 8, 2013 9:25:35 AM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
>> Added ST_Dwithin support in trunk. Please check it.
>>
>> On Sunday, 8 December 2013 07:02:06 UTC-6, User wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm storing latitude/longitude coordinates in a geometry field (using 
>>> PostgreSQL 
>>> 9.1.10):
>>>
>>> Field('point', 'geometry()')
>>>
>>> I understand there is also the geography type but from my reading 
>>> geometry is faster and is suitable for small distances (
>>> http://workshops.boundlessgeo.com/postgis-intro/geography.html#why-not-use-geography
>>> )
>>>
>>> I want users to be able to specify a reference point and search for all 
>>> records within X distance from the reference point.  Using raw SQL I would 
>>> use  ST_DWithin <http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ST_DWithin.html> doing 
>>> something like
>>>
>>> SELECT name, ST_AsText(point)
>>> FROM mytable
>>> WHERE ST_DWithin(point, ST_GeomFromText('POINT(40.47112 -76.33)',4326), 
>>> 0.1)
>>>
>>> But web2py does not seem to support ST_DWithin only st_within.  So how 
>>> can I achieve a similar result in web2py?
>>>
>>>

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