[mapserver-users] Mysql support for mapserver

[Robert Burgholzer]

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don;t believe there is any
support within Mapserver to directly employ mySQL. If I understand the
documentation, postgres and oracle are supported, but not mysql. This
is, I gather, due to the fact that these two databases somehow support
shape or image data columns.
The documentation seems vague on this (I have set up a search engine to
search the docs [http://128.173.218.154/search/prog_lang.html] and a
search for POSTGIS turns up only four hits, one a comment in the faq
asking for information on postgis). However, I managed to locate a link
on a linked page to the following: http://postgis.refractions.net/
It looks as if these folks are in the know. I am going to explore this
myself, and see if I can't make the switch from mysql to postgres.

hope this helps,
Rob


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Robert Burgholzer
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