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<p class="MsoNormal">I have two calls to gdal.Rasterize, each of which target a separate GDAL memory dataset but source the same OGR memory dataset, that I hoped could be ran in parallel using Python’s concurrent futures. The idea being that each GDAL call
unlocks the Python GIL, and performing read only operations on the vector database (except for storing memory for the results) could in principle be a safe and effective optimization, as the feature layers themselves are not mutated. The SQL dialect is SQLite,
so presumably the OGR dataset has to be converted to a SQLite (memory) database. Technically SQLite supports multiple readers just fine, but this doesn’t mean GDAL/OGR does. The multithreading documentation page doesn’t explicitly mention OGR / vector datasets
but I presume they inherit similar stateful restrictions (Yes RFC 101 is coming). However, running these SQL queries at the same times causes OGR to trip over itself (I presume OGR assumes only one query statement is being evaluated at the same time).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So I think the intended work around is either: accept this is as a serially dependent task, or copy the dataset and have each Rasterize() work on a copy, yes?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the same spirit as RFC 101, which gives some thread safety to raster read-only workloads, is there interest in expanding this to vector datasets?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Jesse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Lead Computer Scientist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Science Systems and Applications, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Dr Compton Tucker Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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