SteveC wrote: > On 2 May 2008, at 12:38, Christopher Schmidt wrote: >> Some things don't require referential integreity: selecting ways/nodes >> within a bounding box can't hurt the referential integrity of the >> database (so long as the code is well-maintained), so the harm in >> converting those methods (which are probably the single most >> performance >> important aspect of Potlatch?) to SQL is relatively low, so far as I >> can >> tell... > > One of the other reasons for moving to rails was the holy grail of > using postgres, and rails is theoretically db independent. Of course > it didn't work out that way.
Main problem here is the lack of good 'GIS' in other databases. It looks like I may be forced to move the gis data to a postgres database despite the fact that I have had all other systems running Firebird/Interbase for 15 years :( > On the specific point, I'm all for more speedy SQL on things like that > so long as there is a rails logic way too - in much the same way as > there apparently is with the tileid stuff. Then if things change > significantly (like, say with changesets, rollback, spatial data > types) we don't have limited options. Rails may be nice for some, but for those of us how are coding other applications daily without any reference to rails it is a turn off. I do not have the time to bother even looking which is a reason that I have not been able to contribute on that side. I work with raw data via SQL and will continue that way with 25 years of C++ applications and now increasingly PHP. So any extensions I come up with ( such as NLPG data interface ) will be in PHP :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
