WMS WFS PostGIS architecture question.

Peter Fischer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gis.freegis
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

I have a question concerning the architecture of WMS/WFS and PostGIS:
Is PostGIS just for WFS or could it be used also to store the card
material for a WMS? - How typically a WMS stores its card material?
Also in sort of a database? - Is it standardized? Or is the card
material just stored in a directory/file structure without database
functionality?

Furthermore, I found the following PDF:

http://lists.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/attachments/20020424/20dcffd7/OGC-OSS.pdf

On page 2 the WFS on the bottom acesses Rasters and Images. But I
thought, WFS is just for vector data (features), stored in e.g.
ESRI shapes or PostGIS, like the other two datasources. But is it
really true like in this diagram that a WFS also can access raster
images? - I thought this is normally done by WMS/WCS?

Please could anyone help to clear my confusion?

Best regards,

Peter.
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