On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 08:47:59AM -0400, Robert Burgholzer wrote: > I am working through some postgis stuff for a Drupal module, and noticed > that the geometry storage in Drupal is "bytea" (because it tends to be > mysql-centric?). > > What is the difference, i.e., advantage offered by the PostGIS custom type > "geometry"?
Advantages are those of having typed data. Functions can behave differently based on the data type, you can have type-specific statistical analyzers and operators, you know exactly how to interpret the data... --strk; () Free GIS & Flash consultant/developer /\ http://strk.keybit.net/services.html _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
