Re: Informix beats Oracle

Serge Rielau wrote: > DA Morgan wrote: >>> PS: How do you define "native"? Let's not even talk of XML, but just >>> the spatial type. What makes them "native" vs. an IDS geospatial >>> datablade? >> The same thing that makes a DATE data type "native" versus storing a >> string in it that represents a date. I can put zeros and ones into a >> CHAR(1) or INT but that doesn't make it Boolean. > Daniel, I am starting to believe I may know Oracle better than you do ;-) > Oracle classifies spatial types under "Oracle supplied types" > There even is a distinct list of "built-in types" you can find by > searching the relevant websites which does most definitely not contain > any spatial types. I made no reference to spatial ... are you reading what I wrote or commenting on the "IDS geospatial datablade" comment from someone else? -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.org