[postgis-users] SQLite and postGIS

[Frank Warmerdam]

Richard Greenwood wrote:
> So in a MapServer itemquery, is GetFeature() or GetNextFeature() being
> used? I'm guessing the latter. I'm trying to picture, from a MapServer
> perspective, where the senarios you describe would be invoked. Like
> when would you do a GetFeature() by FID?

Rich,

Hopefully we aren't abusing the postgis list too much here!

MapServer uses GetNextFeature() for drawing layers, but uses GetFeature()
by fid for query related stuff which (unfortunately) uses a two pass approach
that makes it very slow in some contexts.

Best regards,
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