[OSGeo-Discuss] Using ArcGIS Desktop with PostGIS [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Jeff McKenna]

Bruce, there is no issue with using this mailing list for discussing
interacting with our open tools and others...it is VERY interesting and
please do continue and share.

-jeff



On 2014-07-11, 9:01 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> Many thanks Gavin.
> 
> We have the required licenses, so that will be OK.
> 
>>From memory, ESRI's support is a few versions of Postgres and PostGIS behind the current releases.
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> Have you had any luck with using versions of Postgres and PostGIS higher than ESRI claim to support.
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> We're running ArcGIS 10.1 and the new Postgres / PostGIS environment that we're looking at is 9.3.4 with PostGIS 2.1.3.
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> We'll be running our own tests, but it would useful to have an idea of potential issues.
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> If anyone would like me to move this thread off Discuss, please let me know. However I suspect that it may be of interest to a number of sites.
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> Bruce
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> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Gavin Fleming [gavinjfleming at gmail.com]
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> Hi Bruce
> 
> I've done fairly  extensive research as this is a very common situation. The landscape is quite fluid though.
> 
> There are a few third party extensions out there but I haven't had much luck with them in a read-write production environment.
> 
> Native read support of PostGIS from ArcGIS desktop has been available for a few versions now. The clincher is write support. For that you need to pay up and as a minimum get ArcGIS Editor (now called Standard). ArcGIS ArcView (now called Basic) won't get you write access. And you can't get around it with WFS-T either.
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> So in a nutshell, to write to native PostGIS via a database connection or WFS-T you need either ArcGIS Standard ('Editor') or Enterprise ('ArcInfo') or ArcGIS Server (set up to use native PostGIS geometry).
> 
> Gavin
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> On 11/07/2014 06:56, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone have any experience using PostGIS as a vector spatial data source with ArcGIS Desktop as a client?
> 
> I’m particularly interested in our ArcGIS Desktop users being able to create, update and delete spatial data managed within a PostGIS environment, without the use of ArcSDE or similar middle wear.
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> Would you be interested in sharing any experiences that you’ve had from implementation to operational use?
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> We have a mixed spatial environment with both ArcGIS Desktop and open source Desktop GIS applications as client tools.
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> Provided that we can arrive at a good robust solution, I’d like to move our ArcGIS Desktop clients away from ArcSDE, and consolidate our vector spatial database environment on Postgres / PostGIS.
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> Bruce
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