[gdal-dev] OGC_FID vs. OGR_FID

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Thu Oct 8 19:55:28 EDT 2009


Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ogr2ogr seems to create field named ogc_fid with PostGIS driver but ogr_fid with
> Oracle OCI driver.  Is this intentional?  Probably not a big trouble for anybody.

Jukka,

I believe by the time I was implementing the Oracle driver I realized naming
the fid "ogc_fid was presumptuous so I used a name that was ogr oriented.
I might have changed the postgres driver, except that this would likely have
been disruptive for existing users.

Best regards,
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