[postgis-users] metadata and PostGIS

[Schweitzer, Peter]

Since much metadata is stored as XML, you could also keep that sort of
metadata in a PostgreSQL field of type xml alongside your geometry or
in another table, then you can retrieve and style or query that xml
item using xpath in pgsql.


On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Rémi Cura <remi.cura at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you talking about adding columns/attributes (row level)?
>
> or a custom meta data model (table level)?
>
> Anyway it is possible, and common ;-)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Rémi-C
>
> 2015-04-10 16:51 GMT+02:00 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
>>
>> Il 10/04/2015 16:32, Mark Volz ha scritto:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Is there a way to add metadata in our PostGIS layers?
>>
>> Which metadata? Have you checked the relevant QGIS plugin?
>> All the best.
>>
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