Somebody feel to jump in and contradict me here, but I have never had any love from the MySQL GIS stack. For the very few functions it does support, the performance has been abysmal and I generally find myself hacking together UDFs against columns of FLOAT and avoiding POINT altogether.
- md On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:41 PM, René Fournier <m...@renefournier.com> wrote: > Anyone have any idea on if/when MySQL will get real GIS support? > > > http://mysqldbnews.blogspot.com/2007/10/does-mysql-gis-make-grade.html > > …is what I'm referring to. Specifically, the factor that many functions are > quietly replaced with MBRContains(). This makes it, for example, not > possible to determine with certainty (in SQL) if a point lies within a > non-rectangular polygon. > > I ask because I'm looking at moving a big part of our applications to > Postgresql, and, well, I'd rather not have to. > > …Rene > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=mdyk...@gmail.com > > -- - michael dykman - mdyk...@gmail.com May the Source be with you.
