<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the response - I was thinking that may be the case.  I suppose I should ask if PostGIS has anything that would make it behave badly when called on geometries stored as plain old blob's?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Sandro Santilli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:strk@keybit.net" target="_blank">strk@keybit.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 08:47:59AM -0400, Robert Burgholzer wrote:<br>
> I am working through some postgis stuff for a Drupal module, and noticed<br>
> that the geometry storage in Drupal is "bytea" (because it tends to be<br>
> mysql-centric?).<br>
><br>
> What is the difference, i.e., advantage offered by the PostGIS custom type<br>
> "geometry"?<br>
<br>
</span>Advantages are those of having typed data. Functions can behave differently<br>
based on the data type, you can have type-specific statistical analyzers<br>
and operators, you know exactly how to interpret the data...<br>
<br>
--strk;<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><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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