[Qgis-user] ESRI-FileGDB: Is this really meant to be usable?

Saulteau Don sault.don at gmail.com
Tue Oct 1 16:27:36 PDT 2013


I've had some troubles opening "upgraded" FileGDB, so one thing to also
check is that it's not an upgraded FileGDB.

I get better luck creating a new empty >=v10.0 FileGDB then importing the
old data into it.


Donovan


On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org>wrote:

> Le mardi 01 octobre 2013 12:11:01, Bernd Vogelgesang a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a FileGDB, formerly created in ArcGis 9.2, and then transformed
> > to a 10-Version.
> > The FileGDB has a size of 1,6 MB(!), and when i select one of the
> > layers, which contains 150 polygons only, it takes about 2 minutes to
> > open the layer.
> > Showing the attribute table takes another 2 minutes.
> > During this time the CPU-load jumps from 20% to 60% and back.
> > Trying to do anything else with QGIS sooner or later leeds to a crash.
> >
> > Question: Does anyone work successfully with ESRI-FileGDB?
> > What might be the reason for this encredibly bad performance?
>
> Bernd,
>
> Difficult to know without actually being able to reproduce. What is the
> performance of converting it to a shapefile for example with ogr2ogr ?
>
> ogr2ogr target.shp /path/to/source.gdb
>
> One case that I'm aware to have bad performance with the FGDB SDK is when a
> layer has hundreds of fields par feature, like with US Census files.
>
> If you can share your database, I can also try having a look (at the OGR
> side
> of things)
>
> Regards,
>
> Even
>
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