[postgis-users] Re: PostgreSQL/PostGIS and ArcGIS Server 9.3

[Obe, Regina]

Sorry to beat a dead horse here.  From Dave's response to my question 
What does
"I also wanted to try a direct connection - I stopped the ArcSDE
service. Worked just fine - note the "service" name." mean?

it sounds like you can have the ArcSDE service off and ArcMap can still
connect to PostGIS.  
  

http://blog.davebouwman.net/2008/05/12/PostGISRound2ReadingTheManual.asp
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His response which is also on the above link.

Regina,

Since the geometry is stored in PostGIS format, you can always connect
via uDig etc. I just wanted to confirm that the SDE client libraries
(used by ArcCatalog/ArcMap/ArcGIS Server) could also handle the PostGIS
format without the sde service (giosvr.exe) running. This worked just
fine. Note the Service Name was just referring to the format of the
direct connect "service" name - sde:postresql:localhost in my case.

So - as long as you don't require versioning in your workflow, you can
very easily use uDig/GeoServer/QGIS etc along side the ESRI stack.

Hoped that helps clear things up!

Cheers,

Dave 
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I'm not quite clear what that means from a licensing perspective.  Does
that mean you have to pay for Arc SDE, but you don't actually need it
(except for the functions ArcGIS installs in the esri schema) unless you
are doing versioning and maybe RASTER (can it even do raster with
PostgreSQL?), or it doesn't even need those functions either and can
connect to any PostGIS server?

Thanks,
Regina

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