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Hi Leo & Regina,<br>
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On 07/22/2010 12:52 AM, Paragon Corporation wrote:
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color="#0000ff">Peter,</font></span></div>
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color="#0000ff">You might have answered this already and we missed
that part, but we couldn't gather the answers from the rasdaman site.</font></span></div>
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color="#0000ff">We are in the middle of finishing our book so these
questions may seem a bit nosy.</font></span></div>
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color="#0000ff">1) What versions of PostgreSQL does rasdaman support?</font></span></div>
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8.x<br>
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color="#0000ff">2) What OSes -- does it work on/tested on - all
supported by PostgreSQL?</font></span></div>
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We have run rasdaman on HP-UX, Solaris, SGI/IRIX, IBM/AIX, Linux;
client side also on Win (currently focusing on Linux due to request
statistics)<br>
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color="#0000ff">3) How many bands can you store per raster or is it
any number like WKT Raster?</font></span></div>
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color="#0000ff">4) As far as we can gather - it looks like rasdaman
though by default chooses to store data in PostgreSQL, can in theory
store in any DBMS? That it takes more of the middleware route</font></span></div>
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color="#0000ff">similar to ArcSDE (not talking about what it does,
just the general how it interfaces with the database)</font></span></div>
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this is Oracle, IBM DB2, IBM Informix, MySQL, PG, file system<br>
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color="#0000ff">5) Are the queries directly callable from PostgreSQL
or you have to go thru the rasql interface?</font></span></div>
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PG not yet directly, currently all through rasql. This will change this
fall.<br>
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hope it helps, let me know of further questions.<br>
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-Peter<br>
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color="#0000ff">Leo and Regina</font></span></div>
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color="#0000ff"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.postgis.us">http://www.postgis.us</a></font></span></div>
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Dr. Peter Baumann
- Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
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mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:p.baumann@jacobs-university.de">p.baumann@jacobs-university.de</a>
tel: +49-421-200-3178, fax: +49-421-200-493178
- Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 147737)
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tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: +49-173-5837882
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