[Gdal-dev] Importing VMAP0 into PostGIS database;

Martin Spott Martin.Spott at mgras.net
Tue Aug 23 12:17:10 EDT 2005


Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Thanks for the note.  The conclusion seems to be that the OGDI VRF
> driver (and possible the OGDI RPC protocol?) is not currently 64bit safe.

.... apparently not only the OGDI driver. I thought I'd convert the
VMAP0 data to Shapefiles on the 32 bit Sparc platform via OGDI/GDAL and
import these into the database on the 64 bit machine via GDAL as well.
This actually works without any trouble.
Now I want to dump the resulting database to compare it with the one I
run at home on 32 bit AIX, but during dump the 'postgres' process on
the UltraSparc dies after consuming all availabe memory.

The conclusion seems to be that it is at all a bad idea (TM) to run
this sort of stuff in a 64 bit environment.

Cheers,
	Martin.
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