[GRASSLIST:9194] Re: sqlite driver - remarks and questions

[Radim Blazek]

On 11/22/05, David Finlayson <david.p.finlayson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 3. But, the initial "Building spatial index" is as long for sqlite as
> > for dbf, and occures each time d.what.vect is invoked. Is it
> > unavoidable?
>
> It would be nice if the spatial index where somehow stored in the db
> for future access (it would need to be rebuilt only when changes to
> the table were made?)

It was originaly stored in file but the files were too big and it took also
a long time to load them. What we need is access to index stored in
file directly without loading to the memory, that is also important for
large datasets.

Radim