Re: Build in spatial support vs. PostGIS

Hello

2009/6/21 Assaf Lavie <assaflavie(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> Can anyone please shed light on the difference between the two:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1023229/spatial-data-in-postgresql
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some integrated support for spatial types are relative old thing
probably from academic era of pg. It's good demonstration of
PostgreSQL's universality and could be used in some isolated projects.
PostGIS is do same thing, but it is based on OpenGIS standard (and
SQL/MM) standard and it's very rich tool for operation over spatial
data. There are some GIS clients, that can draw data stored in OpenGIS
format.

regards
Pavel Stehule
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