[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Oracle Spatial Driver

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Andreas,

On Tue, 03. Apr 2012 at 11:34:51 +0200, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Shouldn't the Oracle driver work for both versions? I would assume so,  
> but I may be wrong ... To me (not an oracle specialist) it seems like  
> this is only a licensing difference?

AFAICS the only thing that is missing[1] in Locator the provider would actually
directly use is SDO_GEOM.RELATE.   But that would only be necessary to
determine exact window intersections and that can also be done with GEOS after
fetching a bit more with SDO_FILTER.


Jürgen

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e11830/sdo_locator.htm#CFABACEA

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