OracleSpatial 10i GetExtent slow

[Daniel Morissette]

Hallgren Johan E wrote:
> I hope you all understood that there still is a need for function that
> retrieves the layerextent from metadata if it's available (as Frank
> mentions). In my case we have over a million records in the table and to
> calculate extent for the layer by go true all those records will take to
> much time.
> 

As Sean wrote, layers have an EXTENT attribute that you can set and if 
it is set then it will be returned directly instead of scanning the 
Oracle layer. This is already in place and does the same as what a 
metadata would do.

Daniel