From: Michael Dykman Date: October 8 2011 3:17am Subject: Re: MySQL anemic GIS support List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/225970 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=00151773e4220fc7fb04aec1007b --00151773e4220fc7fb04aec1007b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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, Ren=E9 Fournier wrot= e: > 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 > > =85is 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. > > =85Rene > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=3Dmdykman@stripped > > --=20 - michael dykman - mdykman@stripped May the Source be with you. --00151773e4220fc7fb04aec1007b--