Re: Build in spatial support vs. PostGIS

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Assaf Lavie <assaflavie(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Build in spatial support vs. PostGIS
Date: 2009-06-21 13:45:24
Message-ID: 20090621134524.GZ20436@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Assaf Lavie (assaflavie(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> Can anyone please shed light on the difference between the two:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1023229/spatial-data-in-postgresql
> (login _not_ required)

Without really good justification to use something else, I'd strongly
recommend using PostGIS. It has a ton of extrememly useful functions
and other things that go beyond the built-in PG support.

Thanks,

Stephen

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