[gdal-dev] Optimizing access to shapefiles

[Martin Dobias]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Would GetFeature() still return a feature with a full vector of
> fields, but those not desired just being left in the null state?
> If so, I think such an approach would be reasonable.  However, it will
> require an RFC process to update the core OGR API.  Are you willing
> to prepare such an RFC?

I have created the RFC:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc29_desired_fields

Let me know if anything important is missing there.

Regards
Martin