[Xastir-Dev] Short list, stable release, then Xastir-2 development?

Ken Koster n7ipb at wetnet.net
Fri Mar 14 03:18:53 EST 2003


On Thursday 13 March 2003 21:33, KC7ZRU - Tate wrote:
...
> Just being totally selfish - it's what I'm good at - are there reasons
> (don't even have to be *goot* ones) to use Postgre over MySQL?
>
> Reason I enquire is I already run MySQL for other projects - it's doable
> to run both, but a bit of a resource hog. And no, I'm not a member of
> either 'fanatic' camp - just what I've already got. Nothing religous at
> all.

Actually I kind of razzed Curt about that too, since I'm also running MySQL
for some other projects.  But in this case Postgres is the better choice
since it has PostGIS support.

As Gerry Creager said in a previous message:
  >>If we were to take it a step further, PostGIS allows storage of spatial
  >>components.  Polygons and their coordinate info (and metadata), anyone?

It's going to be great :-)

Ken,  N7IPB



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