MS RFC 22a: Feature cache for long running processes and query processing (C

[Tamas Szekeres]

2007/6/12, Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us>:
> I would hope that msLayerGetShape isn't opening a new connection for each feature... msLayerOpen
> should do that. It's still expensive to execute a bit of SQL for each feature though.
>

That's true. Populating the cache would occur in one single function
upon the WhichShapes call if needed.

Tamas