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List:       postgis-devel
Subject:    Re: [postgis-devel] [raster] Paths local to server
From:       Mateusz Loskot <mateusz () loskot ! net>
Date:       2013-03-01 20:02:16
Message-ID: CABUeae_KfiV69rUR83vasnd3A924mpkR6wOH61Zs=uh0SAs-xQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 1 March 2013 12:49, Pierre Racine <Pierre.Racine@sbf.ulaval.ca> wrote:
>> > Do you see any use for the path by an external application?
>>
>> Yes. Not necessarely as part as an ST_AsBinary function.
>> Could be a backup application, for example, that wants to
>> know what to backup and what to leave there
>
> So how external applications should get access to the path? With ST_BandPath?

There is also raster_columns with array of flags.

> Having one version of WKB containing the path means that for in-db
AND out-db rasters, the application have ONLY one query to do to know
everything.

IMO, one or two queries for metadata make no difference


Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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