Hello,

My application needs to support storing of geometry instances with different SRID values in the same table and then be able to query it using spatial operations and a filter geometry which could be in any SRID.

One possible option (Option #1) is to use ST_TRANSFORM function to transform all geometry instances on WRITE to the same internal SRID (say 4326) and transform the filter geometry used by the query to the same SRID used internally (say 4326) before doing the spatial operation.

The other option (Option #2) is to store all geometry instances with their original SRID values on WRITE and use ST_TRANSFORM function in the query to transform all internal geometry instances to match the same SRID as that of the filter geometry used by the query.

It seems option #1 is less accurately preserving the original data but is much more efficient on query while option #2 stores original data without any change but may have serious performance issues due to the transform on query.

What do people advice based upon their experience with postgis for my requirement and possible solution.

Thank you for your help.

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Regards,
Farrukh Najmi

Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com

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