[gdal-dev] Two OGR Driver questions: specifically OCI but really a general question

[Peter J Halls]

Frank,

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Peter J Halls wrote:
>> Dear Team,
>>
>>    would someone please explain to me the purpose of the 
>> UnboundCreateFeature method?  Within the OCI driver it does not appear 
>> that this method can ever get invoked: is it superseded by the 
>> BoundCreateFeature method?
>>
>>    Secondly, the OCI driver BoundCreateFeature method appears to write 
>> the FID value into the feature data structure as well as write it out 
>> into the SQL to perform the action; the UnboundCreateFeature method 
>> does not.  Is this a requirement?
> 
> Peter,
> 
> I don't really recall the reason for the bound and unbound versions.
> But the unbound case can still be used if the MULTI_LOAD=false layer
> creation option is used.

Thanks ...

Best wishes,

Peter

> 
> Best regards,

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