alt Hacker NewsIs it that much simpler than ‘load extension postgis’? I know geos and gdal have always kinda been a pain, but I feel like docker has abstracted it all away anyway. ‘docker pull postgis’ is pretty easy, granted I’m not familiar with what else duckdb offers.
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frainfreeze • yesterday at 10:28 PM
It is not simpler. I use it with testcontainers in the notebooks usually https://testcontainers-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Yes. The difference between provisioning a server and running 'install spatial' in a CLI is night and day.
Docker has been a big improvement (when I was first learning PostGIS, the amount of time I had to hunt for proj directories or compile software just to install the plugin was a major hurdle), but it's many steps away from:
``` $ duckdb D install spatial; ```