[Intevation News] Improved Support for Spatial Data in PostgreSQL 8.1

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

Improved Support for Spatial Data in PostgreSQL 8.1

Intensive read operations for geo-data are possible since a while
with the "PostGIS" extension for PostgreSQL. For realtime and various
web-applications, enterprise-level performance of write operations
has become a much wanted feature.
The GiST (indexing of complex, e.g. spatial, data)
has been improved with PostgreSQL 8.1 to allow much faster writing.

Intevation joined Refractions Research Inc, the main developers of
PostGIS, and the companies Cadcorp, WebBased, GlobeXplorer and
Mobile Meridian, to finance this PostgreSQL improvement.

"Such a joined funding is always desireable,"
says Frank Koormann, responsible for database systems and PostGIS 
at Intevation. "Contributing to coordinated improvements
is a service that Intevation offers to its customers as part 
of maintenance and support contracts.
This continous development is independent of project objectives
and ensures the longevity of products. It prevents
that new features are build on top of an unsteady ground."

References:
	http://www.postgresql.org
	http://postgis.refractions.net
	http://www.intevation.de/services/gis/postgis.de.html (page in German)