[gdal-dev] Advanced 3.6.1 release and retraction of 3.6.0 ?

[Sean Gillies]

No objection from me!


On Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 8:19 AM Even Rouault via gdal-dev <
gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/51188 has been brought to my
> attention. The issue is that the new background building of the RTree of
> GeoPackage files introduced in 3.6.0 didn't work well with committing
> transactions in between, which is easily triggered by ogr2ogr. All
> features were inserted but with default settings ~ 10% of them lacked an
> entry in the spatial index, which can be enough to break interactive
> display and workflows relying on spatial filtering. When using ogr2ogr,
> I believe the issue can only be seen when creating layers with more than
> 100 000 features, since that's the default value for the interval at
> which transactions are committed.
>
> I've a fix ready in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/6911. The fix
> itself is a simple two-liner:
>
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/6911/commits/3f5f6225fe82e0c2e0241e4f66bfb861cdf4fe9d
>
> Given the status of GeoPackage being the default format for QGIS, I
> believe this is a severe enough issue to warrant an advanced 3.6.1
> release, and an official retraction of 3.6.0.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
> Even
>
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