Description

The && operator returns TRUE if the bounding box of geometry A overlaps the bounding box of geometry B.

	This operand will make use of any indexes that may be available on the geometries.

Availability: 1.5.0 support for geography was introduced.

This method supports Circular Strings and Curves

Examples

SELECT tbl1.column1, tbl2.column1, tbl1.column2 && tbl2.column2 AS overlaps
FROM ( VALUES
	(1, 'LINESTRING(0 0, 3 3)'::geometry),
	(2, 'LINESTRING(0 1, 0 5)'::geometry)) AS tbl1,
( VALUES
	(3, 'LINESTRING(1 2, 4 6)'::geometry)) AS tbl2;

 column1 | column1 | overlaps
---------+---------+----------
	   1 |       3 | t
	   2 |       3 | f
(2 rows)

See Also

|&>, &>, &<|, &<, ~, @