[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #1617: [raster] several regress failures on raster (old mingw)

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#1617: [raster] several regress failures on raster (old mingw)
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 Reporter:  robe     |       Owner:  dustymugs    
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  assigned     
 Priority:  blocker  |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.0
Component:  raster   |     Version:  trunk        
 Keywords:  mingw    |  
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Changes (by dustymugs):

  * owner:  pracine => dustymugs
  * status:  new => assigned


Comment:

 Gah!  No need to do additional testing.  I know what's causing it.
 PostGIS Raster has the pixel type 8BSI.  GDAL does not support 8BSI so we
 use the GDAL pixel type GDT_Int16.  When converting a raster to a GDAL MEM
 dataset, we use a pointer to the location of the pixel data.  But, there
 is a mismatch as GDAL is expecting a block of data in 16-bit signed
 integer when the data is in 8-bit signed integer.  And thus the memcpy
 messages pramsey was getting in gdb.  GDAL was expecting the data block to
 be twice the size of what is in the raster.

 So, that's the problem.  It only affects the 8BSI pixel type as all other
 pixel-types have a clean one-to-one match.  I hope to have a fix committed
 sometime today or in the worst case, tomorrow.

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