[gdal-dev] Shape datafile locked

Even Rouault even.rouault at spatialys.com
Tue Mar 13 10:11:38 PDT 2018


On mardi 13 mars 2018 10:01:48 CET Stephan Braeuer wrote:
> I am using GDAL with c# and run into a problem deleting datasource files
> after running ExecuteSQL.
> The key here is that a datasource is opened implicitly via the JOIN
> statement. An implicitly opened shapefile (here node3109.shp) remains locked
> after the datasource has been closed.
> 
> Opening the file upfront does not help either. Here is the c# code snippet:
> 
>   using (DataSource datasource = OSGeo.OGR.Ogr.Open(pipeFile, 0))
>   {
>      string statement =
>          "SELECT p.id, n.grnd_lvl FROM pipe3109 p " +
>          "LEFT JOIN 'node3109.shp'.node3109 n ON n.node_id = p.ds_node_id";
>      using (Layer layer = datasource.ExecuteSQL(statement, null,
> string.Empty))
>      {

You probably need an explicit
		datasource.ReleaseResultSet(layer)
here. As I don't think layers resulting from ExecuteSQL() are garbage collected by the C# 
bindings (they are not by other binding languages)

>      }
>   }
>   File.Delete(pipeFile);   //ok
>   File.Delete(nodeFile);  //throws
> 
> 
> 
> Anyone knowing a solution to avoid the lock?
> 
> Thanks
> Stephan
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