Somebody feel to jump in and contradict me here, but I have never had any
love from the MySQL GIS stack. For the very few functions it does support,
the performance has been abysmal and I generally find myself hacking
together UDFs against columns of FLOAT and avoiding POINT altogether.
- md
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:41 PM, René Fournier wrote:
> Anyone have any idea on if/when MySQL will get real GIS support?
>
>
> http://mysqldbnews.blogspot.com/2007/10/does-mysql-gis-make-grade.html
>
> …is what I'm referring to. Specifically, the factor that many functions are
> quietly replaced with MBRContains(). This makes it, for example, not
> possible to determine with certainty (in SQL) if a point lies within a
> non-rectangular polygon.
>
> I ask because I'm looking at moving a big part of our applications to
> Postgresql, and, well, I'd rather not have to.
>
> …Rene
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