DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t1; CREATE TABLE t1 ( fid INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, g GEOMETRY NOT NULL SRID 0, SPATIAL KEY(g) ) ENGINE=MyISAM; SHOW CREATE TABLE t1; Table Create Table t1 CREATE TABLE `t1` ( `fid` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `g` geometry NOT NULL /*!80003 SRID 0 */, PRIMARY KEY (`fid`), SPATIAL KEY `g` (`g`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci SELECT count(*) FROM t1; count(*) 150 EXPLAIN SELECT fid, ST_AsText(g) FROM t1 WHERE ST_Within(g, ST_GeomFromText('Polygon((140 140,160 140,160 160,140 140))')); id select_type table partitions type possible_keys key key_len ref rows filtered Extra 1 SIMPLE t1 NULL range g g 34 NULL 8 100.00 Using where Warnings: Note 1003 /* select#1 */ select `test`.`t1`.`fid` AS `fid`,st_astext(`test`.`t1`.`g`) AS `ST_AsText(g)` from `test`.`t1` where st_within(`test`.`t1`.`g`,(st_geomfromtext('Polygon((140 140,160 140,160 160,140 140))'))) SELECT fid, ST_AsText(g) FROM t1 WHERE ST_Within(g, ST_GeomFromText('Polygon((140 140,160 140,160 160,140 160,140 140))')); fid ST_AsText(g) 1 LINESTRING(150 150,150 150) 3 LINESTRING(148 148,152 152) 4 LINESTRING(147 147,153 153) 5 LINESTRING(146 146,154 154) 6 LINESTRING(145 145,155 155) 7 LINESTRING(144 144,156 156) 8 LINESTRING(143 143,157 157) 9 LINESTRING(142 142,158 158) 10 LINESTRING(141 141,159 159) 11 LINESTRING(140 140,160 160) 2 LINESTRING(149 149,151 151) DROP TABLE t1; CREATE TABLE t1 ( fid INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, g GEOMETRY NOT NULL SRID 0 ) ENGINE=MyISAM; ALTER TABLE t1 ADD SPATIAL KEY(g); SHOW CREATE TABLE t1; Table Create Table t1 CREATE TABLE `t1` ( `fid` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `g` geometry NOT NULL /*!80003 SRID 0 */, PRIMARY KEY (`fid`), SPATIAL KEY `g` (`g`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=101 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci SELECT count(*) FROM t1; count(*) 100 EXPLAIN SELECT fid, ST_AsText(g) FROM t1 WHERE ST_Within(g, ST_GeomFromText('Polygon((40 40,60 40,60 60,40 40))')); id select_type table partitions type possible_keys key key_len ref rows filtered Extra 1 SIMPLE t1 NULL range g g 34 NULL 4 100.00 Using where Warnings: Note 1003 /* select#1 */ select `test`.`t1`.`fid` AS `fid`,st_astext(`test`.`t1`.`g`) AS `ST_AsText(g)` from `test`.`t1` where st_within(`test`.`t1`.`g`,(st_geomfromtext('Polygon((40 40,60 40,60 60,40 40))'))) SELECT fid, ST_AsText(g) FROM t1 WHERE ST_Within(g, ST_GeomFromText('Polygon((40 40,60 40,60 60,40 40))')); fid ST_AsText(g) 46 LINESTRING(51 41,60 50) DROP TABLE t1; End of 5.5 tests.