Re: contrib/postgis spatial extensions

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> The package is 760k. I know GIS is a major feature, but that size had
> me concerned.

Well, 18k of that is the GPL COPYING file ;-)

Seriously, the size doesn't bother me too much. Possibly some space could
be shaved by decreasing the size of the regression test data. And maybe
we don't need to include both XML and HTML versions of the docs. And we
definitely don't need an executable file for examples/wkb_reader/readwkb;
perhaps there are some other files that don't belong in a source
distribution?

But it's under 200K compressed as-is, and given the amount of
functionality added that seems like a worthwhile tradeoff. The existing
geometric datatypes in PG are really only proof-of-concept, academic-toy
quality. This looks like the beginning of a considerably superior
replacement.

regards, tom lane