Re: FDW to postGIS Database

Thank you, Brent! You told me what I needed to know.

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Susan E Hurst
Email:  susan.hurst@brookhurstdata.com
Mobile: 314-486-3261

On 2022-03-06 19:35, Brent Wood wrote:
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>  On Monday, March 7, 2022, 05:36:34 AM GMT+13, Susan Hurst
> <susan.hurst@brookhurstdata.com> wrote:
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> Let say that I have a database named stp. I also have another database
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> named geo that is a PostGIS database for storing geopolitical and
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> geospatial data. I want to set up a foreign data wrapper in stp to
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> connect to geo, so that for each address in stp, I only have to store
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> the primary key value of the lowest level geo unit, such as a city. I
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> can always display the city's county, state, country, whatever in
> views
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> in stp. I plan to have other databases that need geo data so I want a
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> single source of truth for geopolitical and geospatial data.
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> My questions are:
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> 1. Do I have to install PostGIS in stp?....or is it sufficient to
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> install PostGIS only in geo?
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> If you want to use Postgis functions & datatypes in stp you will need
> Postgis there
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> 2. Do I need the postgis extension in stp?  (I'm thinking yes, but I
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> don't want to guess.)
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> Isn't this the same as (1) above? (Postgis is installed via "create
> extension postgis;")
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> 3. I want to geocode addresses in stp. Do I need to install any
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> geocoding software in stp?...or can it be used from geo?
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> If you can geocode in geo & access the resulting data via fdw in stp,
> you should not need geocoding tools in stp.
> If you need to access spatial data from geo in stp & geocode in stp,
> you will need the geocoding tools in stp.
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> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Sue
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> Susan E Hurst
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> Email:  susan.hurst@brookhurstdata.com
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> Mobile: 314-486-3261