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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><!--ppd1000010--><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Gdal 1.9 fails to open Esri Personal geodatabase file (.mdb) in some cases.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>The new PGeo driver looks into the header of the file for the GDB_GeomColumns table (<a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/21550">http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/21550</a>) and cannot find it due to (I assume) the limited size of the header allocated (100Kbytes).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>My geodatabase has hundreds of tables and my assumption is that the buffer allocated for the buffer is too small to contain all the information required to check if the table exists.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>A solution would be to first open the file and query the name of the table instead.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Nicolas Garel </span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>|</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> Junior Software Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>M</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>icromine Product<br><b>Email </b></span><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>|</span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><a href="mailto:ngarel@micromine.com"><span style='color:blue'>ngarel@micromine.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><a href="http://www.micromine.com/"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.micromine.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><br /><br />
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