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

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi Even,

I like the RFC, and just like Dimitri I was wondering if instead of 
GetFID64(), GetFeatureCount64(), etc, we could not simply keep the 
current method names since 2.0 is the time to break the API anyway.

Also note that in the list of driver upgrades, you could add potential 
enhancement to the support for MITAB "TAB Seamless Tables" which had a 
potential FID overflow problem on very large tables with 32 bit ids. The 
driver would have caught and reported an error in this case, but that 
limitation can be solved with 64 bit ids if/when the code is upgraded to 
use them. Look for TABSeamless::EncodeFeatureId() and related methods in 
mitab_tabseamless.cpp.

Daniel


On 2015-01-24 8:07 AM, Dmitriy Baryshnikov wrote:
> 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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