[Gdal-dev] PostGIS Driver Performance

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 7/28/05, Carl Anderson <carl.anderson at co.fulton.ga.us> wrote:
> As a longer term goal it might be nice to add an accessor function for
> the list of  layers available at the OGR level and to allow drivers to
> defer populating it until requested.  So direct access to the array of
> available layers would be deprecated.

Carl,

I would agree that the current architecture is flawed in this respect.
We run into this problem with many RDBMS based drivers where getting
detailed table information can be expensive.  

Best regards,
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