-- An ornithologist wishes to study a bird population on several -- south sea islands. She wants to identify which islands contain -- one or more lakes because the bird species she is interested in -- feeds only in freshwater lakes. -- The ID and name columns of the islands table identifies each island -- while the land ST_Polygon column stores the island's geometry. CREATE TABLE islands (id integer, name varchar(32), land ST_Polygon); INSERT INTO islands VALUES( 1, 'hawaii', ST_PolyFromText('polygon ((42000 18000,48000 18000,48000 13000,42000 13000,42000 18000))',1000) ); -- Because interior rings represent the lakes, the ST_NumInteriorRing -- function will list only those islands that have at least one interior ring. SELECT name FROM islands WHERE ST_NumInteriorRing(land) > 0;