[gdal-dev] GRIB driver crashes with large numbers of bands

[Jose Gómez-Dans]

Hi,
I have some GRIB datasets downloaded from ECMWF 
<http://data-portal.ecmwf.int/data/d/interim_daily/>. The files contain many 
bands (19728). When I try gdalinfo on these datasets, it waits for a long 
time. The python bindings segfault. The driver does fine with a smaller 
dataset (around a third of the layers, some 6500).

Is this a bug or is this a limitation of the grib driver?

Thanks!
Jose