Brad Douglas wrote:
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 19:18 -0500, Jason Winningham wrote:
On Oct 4, 2007, at 7:03 PM, Tate Belden wrote:
Is that even possible? To standardize on a generic 'SQL' so a
specific set of features offered by any one SQL server don't
dictate that server and only that server can be used?
I seem to recall that postgres has some specific GIS-type extensions
(PostGIS?) that would be desirable for an xastir implementation.
Yes, PostGIS has spatial extensions, but I believe requiring the user
have a full-blown database is excessive. I use it myself, but it
shouldn't be forced onto anyone.
SQLite should suffice in parsing DBase files of reasonable size.
And with SQLite, you lose the capability of letting the database do the
heavy lifting for geospatial queries. A PostGIS implementation is not
too hard, and a default schema is straightforward.
gerry
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