Hermann Peifer wrote: > On 13/10/2010 09:10, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > >> However, the .shp part of shapefile can not grow bigger than 4 gigabytes. > Did you ever succeed in creating a, say: 3.9G .shp file? > I do remember that some time ago, I was running into problems around 2G, > which wasn't too much of a surprise, as [1] suggests that: > > There is a 2 GB size limit for any shapefile component file,...
> Hermann > [1] > http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgiSDEsktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Geoprocessing_considerations_for_shapefile_output See http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3236 It should be possible now to write and read .shp parts up to 4 GB but I have not tested that myself. For sure 2 GB is not a limit for .dbf because I have myself reached 32 gigabytes. -Jukka- _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
