-- The county supervisor needs a list of hazardous waste sites -- whose five-mile radius overlaps sensitive areas. -- The sensitive_areas table contains several columns that -- describe the threatened institutions in addition to the -- zone column, which stores the institutions' ST_Polygon geometries. CREATE TABLE sensitive_areas (id integer, name varchar(128), size float, type varchar(10), zone ST_Polygon); -- The hazardous_sites table stores the identity of the sites -- in the site_id and name columns, while the actual geographic -- location of each site is stored in the location point column. CREATE TABLE hazardous_sites (site_id integer, name varchar(128), location ST_Point); INSERT INTO sensitive_areas VALUES( 1, 'Johnson County Hospital', 102281.91, 'hospital', ST_PolyFromText('polygon ((22000 45000,22000 58000,28000 58000,28000 42000,25000 42000,25000 45000,22000 45000))',1000) ); INSERT INTO sensitive_areas VALUES( 2, 'Rydale Nursing Home', 53926.54, 'nursing hm', ST_PolyFromText('polygon ((22000 18000,28000 18000,28000 12000,22000 12000,22000 18000))',1000) ); INSERT INTO sensitive_areas VALUES( 3, 'Summerhill Elementary School', 67920.64, 'school', ST_PolyFromText('polygon ((42000 18000,48000 18000,48000 13000,42000 13000,42000 18000))',1000) ); INSERT INTO hazardous_sites VALUES( 102, 'W. H. Kleenare Chemical Repository', ST_PointFromText('point (7000 47000)',1000) ); INSERT INTO hazardous_sites VALUES( 59, 'Landmark Industrial', ST_PointFromText('point (48000 39000)',1000) ); -- The sensitive_areas and hazardous_sites tables are joined by the -- ST_Overlaps function, which returns t (TRUE) for all sensitive_areas -- rows whose zone polygons overlap the buffered five-mile radius of -- the hazardous_sites location points. SELECT hs.name hazardous_site, sa.name sensitive_area FROM hazardous_sites hs, sensitive_areas sa WHERE ST_Overlaps(ST_Buffer(hs.location,(26400)),sa.zone);