[Gdal-dev] new RFC 13: Improved Feature Insertion/Update/Delete Performance in Batch Mode

[Daniel Morissette]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> There are other mechanisms to accomplish this - based on the OGR 
> transaction
> semantics.  For instance, I think the postgres and oracle drivers implement
> ogr transaction semantics and can do a bunch of CreateFeature() calls in
> a single transaction.  The ogr2ogr program already defaults to doing 
> feature
> creation in groups of 200 by default, with transaction semantics around 
> this.
> 
...
> 
> But because this introduces an extra interface and the related complexity
> I'm hesitant to support it when there is another way to accomplish the
> same thing.
> 

I was not aware that OGR had this transaction mechanism, but I agree 
with Frank that it would be preferable to it if possible instead of 
adding another mechanism to do the same thing.

Daniel
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