[gdal-dev] Motion: Approve RFC 24 - GDAL Progressive Data Support

[RICHARD Didier]

> RICHARD Didier wrote:
>> +1
>>
>> some questions for my understanding :
>>
>>   * does it only aim at raster datasets async read (no vector dataset
>> support) ? whilst jpip at first is of great interest, it could be really
>> interesting to be able to read WFS streams for instance.
>
> Didier,
>
> The RFC does not attempt to address a similar capability in the OGR realm.
>
>>   * no write support foreseen ? (well, not sure it is relevant ...)
>
> I do not foresee write support.  While I can see value in asynchronous
> writing, it does not that the concept of progressive update applies on
> the write side.  I will note that writes are already cached rather than
> being done synchronously, so we could do async writing right now without
> changing the API if we just had a thread that flushed out writable blocks
> without interfering with the main thread.
>

Frank,

Thanks for the informations,

Sincerely,

didier

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