[Gdal-dev] ArcSDE Support in GDAL/OGR

[Christopher Barker]

Simon Perkins wrote:
>> PostGIS can't do it? Darn.
> 
> There have been a couple of musings about raster support in PostGIS over 
> the last few years, but I haven't seen anything ready for primetime.

Yes, I did some googling after sending that note, and found much the 
same thing -- Frank contributed to some of the threads, of course!

> We may fall back on the file reference model, but our first preference 
> is to put all the data in the database. It's something of a marketing 
> strategy as well - all your data in one place.

RDBMS store data in multiple files anyway -- how much is marketing like 
that really worth?

In reading the threads in the postGIS list, there are some good reasons 
for having the data in the DB -- if you need features that can really 
make use of it, then I guess ArcSDE is the way to go. Oh well.

-CHB


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