Re: Build in spatial support vs. PostGIS - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Build in spatial support vs. PostGIS
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Msg-id 20090621134524.GZ20436@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Build in spatial support vs. PostGIS  (Assaf Lavie <assaflavie@gmail.com>)
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* Assaf Lavie (assaflavie@gmail.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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