Re: Insertion of geometric type column with column[0], column[1] and etc.

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Marcelo Zabani <mzabani(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Insertion of geometric type column with column[0], column[1] and etc.
Date: 2010-10-05 13:04:55
Message-ID: 20101005130454.GI26232@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Marcelo Zabani (mzabani(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> However, with the huge popularity of ORM solutions and the complexity of
> db-specific datatypes (geometric types in other dbs probably work
> differently), we can't really expect ORM software to do all the mapping
> successfully (although projects such as Hibernate Spatial exist for java
> solutions, NHibernate Spatial seems to be abandoned, and there are, of
> course, other ORM solutions for other platforms).

Erm, there's two failing here. One is that geometric types work
differently in other databases (I'd encourage you to go check out
http://www.opengis.org), the second is that we can't expect ORM software
to work as, well, an ORM.

Thanks,

Stephen

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