[gdal-dev] Call for discusson on RFC 31 - OGR 64bit Integer Fields and FIDs

Dmitriy Baryshnikov bishop.dev at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 05:07:08 PST 2015


Hi Even,

The RFC looks good. One note. May be in GDAL 2 we can use GetFID instead 
GetFID64? Because we can allow some incompatibility between GDAL 1.x and 
GDAL 2.x.

Best regards,
     Dmitry

23.01.2015 18:17, Even Rouault пишет:
> Hi,
>
> This is a call for discussion on revisiting the existing RFC 31 - OGR 64bit
> Integer Fields and FIDs, initiated by Frank in 2010 and that I've extended.
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc31_ogr_64
>
> Below the summary :
> """
> This RFC addresses steps to upgrade OGR to support 64bit integer fields and
> feature ids. Many feature data formats support wide integers, and the
> inability to transform these through OGR causes increasing numbers of
> problems.
> """
>
> A first discussion took place at http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-
> dev/2010-November/thread.html#26883. My main remarks at that time were about
> compatibility issues, but as this would go in GDAL 2.0, they are likely less
> critical.
>
> Even
>



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