[gdal-dev] Re: combine shapefiles?

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hermann Peifer wrote:
 
> On 13/10/2010 09:10, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
>
>> However, the .shp part of shapefile can not grow bigger than 4 gigabytes.
> Did you ever succeed in creating a, say: 3.9G .shp file?
> I do remember that some time ago, I was running into problems around 2G, 
> which wasn't too much of a surprise, as [1] suggests that:
> > There is a 2 GB size limit for any shapefile component file,...

> Hermann

> [1] 
> http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgiSDEsktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Geoprocessing_considerations_for_shapefile_output

See http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3236

It should be possible now to write and read .shp parts up to 4 GB but I have not tested that myself. For sure 2 GB is not a limit for .dbf because I have myself reached 32 gigabytes.

-Jukka-