Re: [Maria-discuss] Questions about GIS functionality (vs MySQL, InnoDB, PostGIS...)

2012-08-06 Thread Alexey Botchkov
06.08.2012 15:32, Henrik Ingo wrote: On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Alexey Botchkov wrote: It seems MySQL 5.6.1 also supports accurate arithmetic now, not just the old bounding box arithmetic. Ie ST_*() functions. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/functions-for-testing-spatial-relations

Re: [Maria-discuss] Questions about GIS functionality (vs MySQL, InnoDB, PostGIS...)

2012-08-06 Thread Alexey Botchkov
Hi, Henrik. 1) Comparing MariaDB and what's there in MySQL 5.6.1: are these identical but independent implementations? If there are differences, what are they? Implementations are quite different by now. Most significant difference is precise arithmetic used in Maria. So coinciding shapes or