| | 168 | == Oracle == |
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| | 170 | !GeoDjango has preliminary support for Oracle Locator/Spatial as of r6524 (though none of the advanced features of Oracle Spatial are utilized). Oracle's express edition (XE) is ''not supported''. Apparently, even though XE supports Locator's `SDO_GEOMETRY` objects and queries, XE does not include support for Java extensions -- which are required to construct and/or extract geometries from WKT. For the sake of simplicity, WKT geometry construction and extraction was used when implementing the [browser:django/branches/gis/django/contrib/gis/db/backend/oracle Oracle spatial backend]. Patches for creating WKT from `SDO_GEOMETRY` statements would be required to extend support for the XE platforms. |
| | 171 | * ''See'' Siva Rivada's (`sravada`) forum posts in the following Oracle forum threads: "[http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=1340411� Re: Problem with TO_WKTGEOMETRY/FROM_WKTGEOMETRY]", and "[http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=1237000� Oracle Database 10g R2 (10.2.0.1) Express Edition (Locator) Available!!]" |
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| | 173 | === Requirements === |
| | 174 | * Oracle 10g and above with Locator (installation is way beyond the scope of this documentation). |
| | 175 | * [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=84168 cx_Oracle] 4.3.2 and above. |
| | 176 | * GEOS (still required for Lazy-Geometries -- see installation instructions above). |
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