<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:01 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:postgis-users-request@postgis.refractions.net">postgis-users-request@postgis.refractions.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:44:46 -0400<br>
From: "Paragon Corporation" <<a href="mailto:lr@pcorp.us">lr@pcorp.us</a>><br>
Subject: RE: [postgis-users] ESRI 9.3 & PostGIS<br>
To: "'PostGIS Users Discussion'"<br>
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Brent,<br>
Sorry I haven't tried this yet either. I still find the whole ArcGIS 9.3<br>
environment a bit daunting to deal with, but if you haven't looked at other<br>
people's documentation of their experiences, you should take a gander.<br>
>From readings of blogs I gather you have the choice of making your self<br>
inextricably married to ESRI via their PostSDE ST_Geometry implementation or<br>
just chummy chummy using the PostGIS geometry. Benefits of PostSDE<br>
presumably you can take advantage of more of the versioning functionality in<br>
ArcSDE if that is important to you but lose ability to use these in a<br>
non-ESRI SDE FOSS aware tool.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Just a comment.<br><br>The versioning functionality lives in the GeoDatabase (ArcObjects) side and not in ESRI's PostgreSQL ST_Geometry implementation. I don't think anyone can claim with a straight face that "versioning support" would be an advantage of ESRI's type over PostGIS' geometry (that would be incorrect). ESRI's argument for creating their own geometry type on PostgreSQL was the same as it was for them to create their own geometry type on Oracle vs Oracle Spatial's own SDO_GEOMETRY. <br>
<br>- Ragi<br></div>