Hello Andrea, hello Michael, On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:22 +0200, Andrea Aime wrote: > The shapefile datastore uses memory mapping and other advanced > techniques to access the shapefile files, so it's not simply a matter of > extensions, the file has to be uncompressed for the code to have > any chance to read it. > > As Michael suggested, using a compressed filesystem could be an > interesting variant. Mind, the performance may go down the drain. > I'll give the VFS a chance the next days as Michael suggested. Sounds quite promising since performance isn't a big issue in my case, I simply want to import the data in a batch job.
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