I am happy with the explanations and the no go with shapefiles: +1.

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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote:
> Michael Bedward ha scritto:
>> Hi Andrea,
>>
>> Sorry if this is a dumb question... This will only be supported by the
>> JDBC data stores - is that correct ?
>
> I plan to initially implement it only for JDBC data stores.
>
> Other stores might go and implement it as well in the future. Examples:
> - shapefile data store, by deleting the files
> - directory data store, by deleting the files
> - SDE, if there is some API to drop the tables (there is some to create,
>   so I would not be suprised)
> - WFS store talking to a GeoServer instance that has the RESTConfig
>   module installed could create and drop types as well
> - the OGR data store could also expose it
>
> So... there are other options for the future. But the first
> implementation, and the only one that I'm going to include in the
> proposal related commits, is the JDBC-NG one
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
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