[mapserver-users] testing mapserver large files rendering improvements

[Daniel Morissette]

Guillaume Sueur wrote:
> 
>>
>> In my mind, we should do the right thing by default, and give the
>> power users the option to opt out, rather than forcing everyone to
>> become a power user to achieve something as basic as indexed file
>> access.
> 
> +1 for this approach
> 

The right thing to do is not the same in everyone's eyes.

In my eyes, creating .qix files by magic and risk filling up a hard 
drive partition and causing other tools relying on some amount of free 
space on the same partition to fail is not the right thing to do by 
default... but that's just me.

Yes, I know, .qix files are relatively small, but you're opening the 
door to other operations of the same type that could end up really 
filling a disk without the admin even expecting it... because he thought 
  of MapServer data access as a read-only operation like I used to.

/me wonders why PostGIS doesn't create indexes on geometries by default 
if indexing is the right thing to do by default (or does it do that 
already?).

Daniel
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