[mapserver-users] Create a tileindex for WFS

[Rahkonen Jukka (MML)]

Hi,

You tables (what materialized views in fact are) are not big at all. There is something else wrong if your WFS is slow or fails totally. Looking at the tileindex is not the right thing to do.

QGIS is a rather poor WFS client, I would not use that for testing. If you still use, debug the http messages that it is sending, function key F12 opens the debugging tools. However, I would recommend to use hand written WFS requests instead so you can have full control on the queries. It does not take long to learn the basics.

  1.  Read the capabilities https://demo.mapserver.org/cgi-bin/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
  2.  Read the schema of one feature type https://demo.mapserver.org/cgi-bin/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType&TypeName=continents
  3.  Read one feature from a feature type https://demo.mapserver.org/cgi-bin/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=getfeature&TYPENAME=continents&MAXFEATURES=1
  4.  Read the whole feature type by leaving out MAXFEATURES
  5.  Read data from a small area with bbox https://demo.mapserver.org/cgi-bin/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=getfeature&TYPENAME=continents&bbox=-60,46,-59,47



Observe if the response is fast. With your data a reasonable download time for the whole feature type is a few seconds, but it may be longer if your geometries are very big and you have lots of attributes.

If your service is fast but QGIS still gives errors I would check the data, especially if there happens to be topology errors in geometries.
If your service is slow turn on the logging of the SQL statements on the Postgresql side and execute the same SQL from PSQL prompt. If the database is slow it is useless to tune Mapserver. Tune the database instead. For example if spatial index is missing the bbox queries from big tables will be slow, even if the bbox is small.

General advice it to be systematic and change only one thing at a time when testing.

-Jukka Rahkonen-

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Aihe: [mapserver-users] Create a tileindex for WFS

Hello,
In a PostgreSQL 13 database, I have 3 materialized views with 2578, 22013 and 62500 rows.
I am using MS4W 4.0.3 to generate a WFS based on these 3 views.
The aim is for users to display these WFS in QGIS.
I have other lightweight views in PostgreSQL that can be easily displayed, but these 3 materialized views seem to be too heavy to display because some messages say that Downloading the layer entities has failed or partially failed.
I wonder if using a tileindex was a good idea to speed up the display. Before going further in the developments, I would like your opinion about two things :

  *   I have to cut my views in "slices" before create a tileIndex for each one.
  *   The tileindex can be stored in postgis database.
Am I right?
If not is there a better solution ?
Thanks for your help
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