Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Sydney PostgreSQL User Group - inaugural meeting

2004-09-13 Thread mlh
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:55:59AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:29:06AM +1000, Julian Grodzicky wrote: > > Can PostgreSQL be used as a GIS? > > Postgresql can be used IN a gis: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/datatype-geometric.html#DATATYPE-GEO-

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Sydney PostgreSQL User Group - inaugural meeting

2004-09-13 Thread mlh
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:29:06AM +1000, Julian Grodzicky wrote: > Can PostgreSQL be used as a GIS? Postgresql can be used IN a gis: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/datatype-geometric.html#DATATYPE-GEO-TABLE http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/functions-geometry.html

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Sydney PostgreSQL User Group - inaugural meeting

2004-09-13 Thread Julian Grodzicky
Dear Anand, I'm interested in coming along. I'm a newbie to Linux and am still trying to figure out how to use the MySQL that came bundled with OpenOffice.org, lack of operational knowledge/experience of RDB's not withstanding. What is the major difference? Can PostgreSQL be used as a GIS? Note