Excellent, Andrea!
SQLViews look exactly like what i need (though i haven't gotten it to work yet 
… and i was kinda looking forward to some GeoServer coding ;-)
It seems to me that CQL is still doing the filtering in GeoServer?
Thanks
--nix

On Feb 14, 2013, at 02:15, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Robert Nix <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Being that i'm kind of new to GeoServer, i'm looking for some ideas for how 
> best to implement the ability to basically send a query through WMS to 
> PostGIS but still have it processed as if it was a defined layer?
> 
> My scenario is that i have to be able to query any individual (or group or) 
> geometry-row(s) from a PostGIS table that contains millions of rows and build 
> a GeoTiff. It seems filtering a layer in GeoServer for such a large amount of 
> data isn't possible and given the huge (and growing) number of rows, defining 
> static layers in GeoServer is also infeasible?
> 
> Before delving into programming options, have you looked into:
> - CQL filtering: 
> http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/tutorials/cql/cql_tutorial.html
> - parametric SQL views: 
> http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/data/database/sqlview.html
> 
> Cheers
> Andrea
>  
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