[GDAL-DEV] ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" - problem

[Frank Warmerdam]

abhay menon wrote:
> hello Frank and list,
>  
> what i am trying is to split a dataset from oracle in to small unit of 
> data as shapefile. for which i am firing a queries in -sql statement 
> passing by a unique value base on which the data is to be extract small 
> unit from one single layer in oracle.
>  
> that why i have created a batch process hence i faced this problem.
>  
> is there a option in ogr2ogr where i can spilt the dataset into small 
> unit of shapefile in one go.
> as process thru batch is slow and units to create is more than 6000*3 
> files in shape.

Abhay,

I'm afraid I am not clear on what you are doing or asking.  Are you
wanting to split a single table in Oracle into many individual shapefiles
based size, or some attribute value?  This would normally require a
distinct ogr2ogr call for each output shapefile produced.

If you wanted to streamline the operation, it would likely be best to look
at writing a python script.

If you are only producing one shapefile at a time currently, you might want
to use the specific shapefile as the output filename instead of the directory
with many shapefiles.  That should avoid the "too many files open" problem.

Best regards,
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