Re: Disadvantages to using "text" [ArcGIS]

Thanks for your reply...

I was working/experimenting with changing some of my VAR CHAR fields in
a PostgreSQL database to TEXT per this thread...

Via a direct database connection / ODBC link (or via an MS Access front
end and another ODBC), if these added "XY Location..." include a
TEXT-format field/s in the SELECT 'used' by ArcGIS (for symbology
differentiation, etc) then you get the "... no OID..." error and/or see
the fields listed as Binary Blob when you look at the attribute table in
ArcMap - so I had to change these specific fields back to a VAR CHAR
format...

Now that I know the workaround/constraint, no problem! :-)

(Interestingly, at least to me, the WMS server I set up out of
PostgreSQL using MapServer is happy with the TEXT format when accessed
through ArcGIS/ArcCatalog... and of course OpenLayers doesn't mind at
all...)

I heard about the PostgreSQL support in 9.3 - but have also heard that
it is 'read only' connection? Will it support PostGIS? Other
functionality such as seen in ZigGIS?

We don't have the $$$$ for the Interoperability Extension very
unfortunately - we have some CAD datasets for some of our engineering
projects I'd love to connect to dynamically if we did! :-)

Regards,
GREG COCKS
gcocks(at)stoller(dot)com

-----Original Message-----
From: Kasia Tuszynska [mailto:ktuszynska(at)esri(dot)com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:04 AM
To: Greg Cocks; PostgreSQL List - Novice
Subject: RE: [NOVICE] Disadvantages to using "text"

Hi Greg,
What are you trying to do with a postgres blob in ArcGIS?
-Postgres will be supported for ArcSDE in the 9.3 release of ArcGIS
- you can also try using the Interoperability extension to read/draw
data out of Postgres, or PostGIS on postgres without ArcSDE

Sincerely,
Kasia

Kasia Tuszynska
ArcSDE Product Engineer
ESRI

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Greg Cocks
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:58 AM
To: PostgreSQL List - Novice
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Disadvantages to using "text"

... and I am finding some of the software I am using, namely ArcGIS,
doesn't "like" the PostgreSQL 'text' format as it sees it as a Binary
Blob.... so direct links via ODBC, etc can "die.."

What a pity...

Regards,
GREG COCKS
gcocks(at)stoller(dot)com

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Cocks [mailto:gcocks(at)stoller(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:48 AM
To: PostgreSQL List - Novice
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Disadvantages to using "text"

One disadvantage is that if you are using MS Access as a front-end via
ODBC / linked tables, you can not do joins on fields set as text (in
queries, etc)

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Bax [mailto:fbax(at)sympatico(dot)ca]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:55 AM
To: PostgreSQL List - Novice
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Disadvantages to using "text"

Aurynn Shaw wrote:
> Internally, Postgres treats a VARCHAR(n) as a TEXT with a CHECK
> constraint applied to it, so VARCHAR is going to be slightly slower to
use.

Don't you mean VARCHAR(n) will be slightly slower on UPDATES.

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