Latest Contributions by MatsElfström

Yes, I totally second this motion. On a quest to find a common database platform for a number of spatial geodata tools, PostGreSQL/PostGIS comes out on top. With one notable exception, the ESRI biosphere. Support sucks, and as Klemens points out, is always one PostGreSQL generation behind. ... View more

This is of no help, but I'd like to mention that MapBasic/MapInfo has had the function Val(str), from the start. And it has been of great use to me. Today I miss it in ArcGIS. Incidently, not even FME or Excel seem to have a straightforward transformer or module to do this. Strange indeed. ... View more

Hi Asrujit and thanks for the clarification. I see your point, but with the policy you linked to you risk being always one version behind the current. In a situation, a cloud service for instance, it's not always possible to control the DBMS version being deployed, as opposed to when you run the DBMS in-house. The reason I find this important is that I have been looking some time for the least common denominator for enterprise geodata storage in a mixed GIS/CAD environment. PostgreSQL/PostGIS is the strongest, and most priceworthy contestant so far. But I must also say that the ESRI products were the most difficult to connect yet, and the process involved a tedious search for pg driver files which must be manually copied to the right folders. Where QGIS, for instance, simply connected out of the box. There are a large number of software products that can use PostGIS as a database backend, and I would not be surprised if this will evolve even more into an industry standard. I think ESRI would benefit from making an effort to support the current stable release as soon as possible. This will be my final remark in this thread. Thanks for reading. Regards, Mats.E ... View more

Hi Asrujit! The exact wording on this page PostgreSQL database requirements for ArcGIS 10.3.x—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop is that the Minimum supported database versions are PostgreSQL 9.3.5 (64-bit) and PostGIS 2.1. This could be interpreted so that later versions would work as well, but minimum should apparently be read only in this case. When do you plan to release support for PostgreSQL 9.4? Regards, Mats.E ... View more