[gdal-dev] FileGDBs and FIDs of -21121

[Jeff McKenna]

I also like the subtle nod to Rush's legendary album, "twenty-one 
twelve", inside the GDAL code  ;)

-jeff



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On 2024-08-27 6:38 p.m., Even Rouault via gdal-dev wrote:
> I'm afraid you are questioning design choices dating back to the last 
> millennium: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/ 
> commit/9d4076f3672b0b6b31de175fcfa677b378c0b577 :-)
> 
> This could be any value really (perhaps except 0). I assume this was a 
> nice one when looking a OGRRaw value in a debugger to actually see it 
> was initialized to unset, rather than just 0-initialized or random 
> initialized.
> 
> Le 27/08/2024 à 23:23, Seth G a écrit :
>> Thanks Even!
>> I got as far as setting up a test case in MapServer and starting the debugger before your fix arrived :-)
>> As an aside, is there a reason -21121 was chosen as a special value?
>>
>> Seth
>>
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>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024, at 11:14 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
>>> Le 27/08/2024 à 23:01, Even Rouault via gdal-dev a écrit :
>>>> oh, I've managed to reproduce. This is a bug in the OpenFileGDB
>>>> driver. Fix to follow soon
>>> ==>https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/10662
>>>
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