[postgis-users] Handling N-d arrays in PostGIS

[Antonio Rodriges]

Mike,

Thank you for the answer.
I will think it over.

Antonio

2017-10-31 3:17 GMT+03:00 Mike Toews <mwtoews at gmail.com>:
> On 31 October 2017 at 00:09, Antonio Rodriges <antonio.rrz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The size of the array and its dimensions are below
>>
>>  dimensions:
>>     lat = 94 ;
>>     lon = 192 ;
>>     time = 1460;
>
> With PostGIS, you can get this as a multidimensional raster with 1460
> bands, or 18048 multipart geometries with 1460 parts, or 26 million
> single-part geometries. If you can't get raster2pgsql to recognize the
> .nc file, then try using gdal_translate to convert to a .tif file
> instead, and you should be able to load this into PostGIS as a raster.
>
> However, I'll suggest none of these as good options, as they will all
> have a much slower performance in an SQL environment compared to a
> native multidimensional environment (netCDF, HDF5, etc. and NCO,
> NumPy, etc.).
>
> It really depends on what you are doing with the data. If you are
> simply viewing it, then you can (e.g.) open the netCDF directly with
> QGIS (via GDAL), which should be very quick and easy to use. There are
> many tools that can efficiently process netCDF files which I'd expect
> to be much quicker.
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