[Mapserver-users] MySQL Version 4.1.0-alpha

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi David,

Do you know the main differences between MySQL 4.1 and MySQL 5.0? And what 
does version 4.1 miss to be a real (spatial) database, which things are not 
possible yet?

Thanks,
Bart

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:29:20 -0700, David Blasby <dblasby at refractions.net> 
wrote:

> Jim Butcher wrote:
>> First my apologies if this question has been beaten to death, but.....
>> With the future release of MySQL version 4.1 and its Spatial Extension.
>> Are there plans to include MySQL support in future releases of
>> MapServer?
>
>
> Yes.
>
> We at Refractions Research are going to be writing a MySQL-mapserver 
> adapter.  This will be based on the current PostGIS connector.
>
> Currently we are adding the complex spatial operators and functions to 
> PostGIS - things like relate(), contains(), intersect(), buffer(), 
> convexhull(), etc...  Once this is done we want to use the same 
> technology (cf. http://geos.refractions.net and 
> http://postgis.refractions.net) to extend the very simple spatial support 
> in mySQL into something extremely useful.
>
> This is actually an outcome of the Mapserver Users Meeting - I got tired 
> of people asking me if we were going to be supporting mySQL.  Now that 
> mySQL 4.1.0 allows support for sub-selects, it looks like a connector is 
> possible.  With the features promised in 5.0, it looks like mySQL will be 
> a "real" database!
>
> Who is actually using the mySQL spatial support?
>
> dave
>
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