[GRASS-user] v.out.ogr performance

[Hamish]

David Mahoney wrote:
> 
> I don't want to beat a dead horse, and I know that this has been
> covered to a degree on this list before, but is there any way to
> speed up the export of a large vector layer (points in this case) to
> a shapefile? I have 750,000 points and it looks like it will take a
> few hours to export. This is with the attribute data stored in a
> PostgreSQL database.
> 
> I did build an index on the category field in the database, and I
> think it helped to a degree, but I can't be certain that GRASS is
> even using the index.


v.out.ascii.db + ogr2ogr CSV -> Shapefile?
(wiki add-ons)


Some profiling is needed to understand why/where v.out.ogr is so very
slow to export to a shapefile.


Hamish