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Non-Persistent Types
Today I had need to add some new functionality to my Oracle Spatial PL/SQL packages (will be available for download from my website soon).
I wrote the new functions and tested them against 10.2. But the deployment version was 9.2.
Problems occurred!
I could isolate the new functions in 10g SDO_UTIL but not in previous versions OK, but I got pretty annoyed when I discovered that the MDSYS.VERTEX_TYPE at 9.2 changed at 10.x.
At 9.2 MDSYS.VERTEX_TYPE is:
SQL> describe mdsys.vertex_type; Name Null? Type ---- ----- ------ X NUMBER Y NUMBER Z NUMBER W NUMBER
But at 10g it is:
SQL> describe mdsys.vertex_type; Name Null? Type ---- ----- ------ X NUMBER Y NUMBER Z NUMBER W NUMBER ID NUMBER
What a pain!
All of which seems to reinforce my prejudice that persistent data structures are more stable than API based structures.
Documentation
- MySQL Spatial General Function Documentation
- Oracle Spatial Exporter Package Documentation
- Oracle Spatial Object Function Documentation
- Oracle Spatial Object Function Documentation (Multi Page Version)
- PostGIS pl/pgSQL Function Documentation
- SC4O Oracle Java Topology Suite (Stored Procedures) Package Documentation
- SQL Server Spatial General TSQL Function Documentation
- SQL Server Spatial LRS TSQL Function Documentation