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Eric: Thanks for the feedback.</div>
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Just got an email from Paul Ramsey who was involved with libght implementation. He says;</div>
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"<font size="3">No, GHT is dead. It's a bad fit for the db environment. It *might*<br>
have some use as a file format, but even though I feel like a patched<br>
laszip could probably do just as well."</font></div>
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kind regards, Lars</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Fra:</b> Éric Lemoine <eric.lemoine@oslandia.com><br>
<b>Sendt:</b> fredag 8. juni 2018 10.53<br>
<b>Til:</b> Lars; pgpointcloud@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Emne:</b> Re: [pgpointcloud] GHT compression</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 11:35 +0000, Lars wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
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> It was mentioned in a previous post (1) that "libght didn't provide<br>
> much of a performance improvement and was an experimental format".<br>
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> Does pgpointcloud still support libght? What is the status of libght<br>
> component (still experimental)? Viewing homepage it looks very very<br>
> quiet.<br>
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> Does anyone (Eric?) have any information on testing scenario, test<br>
> parameters and test performance result?<br>
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I've never used GHT myself. What I know though is this major bug when<br>
GHT is used: <a href="https://github.com/pgpointcloud/pointcloud/issues/196">https://github.com/pgpointcloud/pointcloud/issues/196</a>. I<br>
haven't had the time to look into this bug.<br>
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Éric Lemoine<br>
Oslandia<br>
+33 1 86 95 95 55</div>
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