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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hi everyone:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2> Does postgis support interger storage? We
are thinking about <SPAN lang=EN-US
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from floating point real–world units to positive integer units </SPAN><SPAN
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better data accuracy,</SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-US>data integrity</SPAN>,<SPAN lang=EN-US>and processing speed as ArcSDE
do. Are there any possible and difficulties of doing so? Dose Geos support it?
As far as I know, spatial databases such as Oralce spatial don't use it but
I think it will really improve performance and low down space. Any
idea?</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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