Andrea Aime wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Rahkonen Jukka <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > >> One possible reason for the problem is file size of uncompressed shapefile >> parts increasing over 2 GB or 4 GB limits. Especially .shp part cannot even >> theorically be bigger that 8 GB but I have faced problems with some programs >> even at the 2 GB.
> Hum, actually the .shp limit is 2GB as far as I know. The offsets in the .shx file are, to memory, 32bit signed integers, so the limit should be 2GB. > At the WMS Shootout 2010 we actually had to split a detailed isoline layer, spain wide, in 8 parts to overcome this problem and make sure all of the .shp files were smaller than 2GB. > And then we had some fun with another that had a larger than 2GB dbf file, but in that case it was legit (though basically everyone had to update their software to cope with it). > Cheers > Andrea Hi, All I know is that with ogr2ogr it used to be 2 GB but I have created something between 2 and 4 GB .shp parts with recent versions and documentation says the limit is 8 GB http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_shapefile.html. -Jukka Rahkonen- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
