<div dir="ltr">I am working through some postgis stuff for a Drupal module, and noticed that the geometry storage in Drupal is "bytea" (because it tends to be mysql-centric?).  <div><br></div><div>What is the difference, i.e., advantage offered by the PostGIS custom type "geometry"?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>/r/b<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">--<br>Robert W. Burgholzer<br> 'Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.'  - Charles Mingus<div>Athletics: <a href="http://athleticalgorithm.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://athleticalgorithm.wordpress.com/</a> <br></div><div>Science: <a href="http://robertwb.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://robertwb.wordpress.com/</a></div><div>Wine: <a href="http://reesvineyard.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://reesvineyard.wordpress.com/</a></div></div></div>
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