Can I check whether a multipolygon contains point in PostGIS?

Question

I got one column (`latlon`) which is a `ST_MultiPolygon`. The other geometry is a point which I just want to check if it is inside one of my MultiPolygons. I tried: ``` SELECT ST_CONTAINS(latlon, ST_GeometryFromText('POINT(48.208417 16.372472)') FROM districts ``` It always returns false; why can't I check if a point is within a multipolygon with `ST_Contains`?

Accepted Answer

it worked like this:

```
SELECT name, st_contains(latlon, ST_GeomFromText('POINT(16.391944 48.218056)', 4326))  FROM bezirks
```

Can I check whether a multipolygon contains point in PostGIS?

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