There is a parameter you can pass so that an index is not created... I  
can't think of it off the top of my head but it exists.

jesse

On 24-Sep-08, at 3:00 PM, Milton Jonathan wrote:

> Hello Andrea
>
> Thanks for the info. Little question/suggestion then: what do you  
> think
> of the idea that, when the .qix file is absent,
> DataStoreFinder.getDataStore returns a non-indexed ShapefileDataStore?
> Would that be possible? Because, if generating the .qix file is
> problematic, then I think it would be better to forget about it
> altogether when it's not there.
>
> Cheers,
> Milton
>
> Andrea Aime wrote:
>> Milton Jonathan ha scritto:
>>> Hello list
>>>
>>> We're trying to read a reasonably large shapefile (~45MB in the .shp
>>> file, ~30MB in the .dbf file) using the IndexedShapefileDataStore.
>>> Everything works fine when a previously generated .qix file is
>>> available. However, when the QuadTree needs to be generated, too  
>>> much
>>> memory is being allocated (up to 100MB before blowing up the memory
>>> heap). This happens at method ShapeFileIndexer.buildQuadTree().
>>>
>>> Is this to be expected? It ends up being a little annoying since  
>>> often
>>> the .qix file is not present and/or there are timesamp differences
>>> between the files that end up requesting a new QuadTree to be built.
>>> Is there a a more memory-friendly way to build the tree?
>>
>> Nope, not at the moment. I've noticed the issue one year ago
>> in GeoServer (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-1570) but never
>> had the time to fix it. As a temporary workaround I use the shptree
>> utility distributed along with MapServer to build the .qix indexes,
>> the format is the same
>>
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
>>
>
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