<div dir="ltr">Hi Gavin and Bruce,<div><br></div><div>To add to what Gavin said, we recently did a piece of work assessing how to use PostGIS as a back end for ArcGIS and as well as the fairly major constraint around writing to the database we also found issues with case-sensitivity- all database objects (tables, schemas etc) need to be lower-case for ArcGIS to see them, and you will need to use different connection methods (query layers) to view data in tables with null values in them.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jo</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Gavin Fleming <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gavinjfleming@gmail.com" target="_blank">gavinjfleming@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi Bruce<br>
<br>
I've done fairly extensive research as this is a very common
situation. The landscape is quite fluid though.<br>
<br>
There are a few third party extensions out there but I haven't had
much luck with them in a read-write production environment. <br>
<br>
Native read support of PostGIS from ArcGIS desktop has been
available for a few versions now. The clincher is write support.
For that you need to pay up and as a minimum get ArcGIS Editor
(now called Standard). ArcGIS ArcView (now called Basic) won't get
you write access. And you can't get around it with WFS-T either. <br>
<br>
So in a nutshell, to write to native PostGIS via a database
connection or WFS-T you need either ArcGIS Standard ('Editor') or
Enterprise ('ArcInfo') or ArcGIS Server (set up to use native
PostGIS geometry).<br>
<br>
Gavin<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 11/07/2014 06:56, Bruce Bannerman wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Does anyone have any experience using PostGIS as a vector
spatial data source with ArcGIS Desktop as a client?</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I’m particularly interested in our ArcGIS Desktop users being
able to create, update and delete spatial data managed within a
PostGIS environment, without the use of ArcSDE or similar middle
wear.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Would you be interested in sharing any experiences that
you’ve had from implementation to operational use?</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>We have a mixed spatial environment with both ArcGIS Desktop
and open source Desktop GIS applications as client tools.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Provided that we can arrive at a good robust solution, I’d
like to move our ArcGIS Desktop clients away from ArcSDE, and
consolidate our vector spatial database environment on Postgres
/ PostGIS.</div>
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<div>Bruce</div>
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