GDAL Maintenance Reports 2007 by Mateusz Loskot

Report 3

From: 2007-04-01

To: 2007-04-15

Resolved issues

work in-progress

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Report 2

From: 2007-03-19

To: 2007-03-31

Resolved issues

#1000 HFA reading code does not handle reduced precision properly

#1036 XYMZ data in WKT leads to an error

#1166 gdalnumeric does only support old Numeric package

#1195 Naked ewkb from postigs (queried through python) causes OGR to segfault

#1323 XYZM data cannot be read from wkb

#1389 problem w/ date fields using ogr2ogr to load shapefile into postgis

#1429 Additional fixes to VSI*L and "errno" setting.

#1432 [OGR] Seg fault in ~OGRKMLDataSource()

#1445 (Partially fixed) GetFeature() not implemented efficiently for server based drivers

#1522 class ERSHdrNode has no member named FindElem

#1523 GIMP JPEG error, Spaced World File error

#1539 Setup Nightly Snapshots

Analysed and discussed issues

#1321 [OGR-ODBC] : DECIMAL field not recognised

#1484 NHD (ESRI) geodatabase reading problems

#1528 Random crashes when using OGR SQL in -where clause

#1547 Patch for mingw bug in strdup

Other activities

• Added or improved tests of:
  • FAST
  • OGR PG
  • HFA

• GDAL sources refactoring and improvements

• Cleaned 300 reports on Bugzilla after migration to Trac

• SWIG Perl tests added to Buildbot

• Tested GDAL with MinGW buildbot configuration (deferred)

• Provided support (>30 posts)

• Ad-hoc troubleshooting

• Investigated and tested building SWIG Java, for Buildbot (deferred)

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Report 1

From: 2007-03-01

To: 2007-03-16

Resolved issues

#1429 VSI*L and "errno" setting.

#1430 [GDAL] ODBC postgresql information schema problems

#1431 Bug, PostgreSQL driver -lco LAUNDER=YES

#1472 Disabling SEQSCAN is now a *bad* idea.

#1474 PostGIS fetches 1 at a time

#1508 configure should check for Python.h before enabling Python

#1514 Query results not cleaned in Soft Transactions of PG

#1516 LANDSAT 7 FAST read problems (finally fixed by Andrey)

#1521 New: Delete feature - .dbf file getting deleted

#1524 New: Fail to read case-sensitive shapefile names

There were also a few minor issues resolved and some submissions not reported on the Bugzilla.

Analysed and discussed issues

#543 OCI driver: getExtent should use USER_SDO_GEOM_METADATA

#1248 Please add transaction support to ogr2ogr for the postgres driver

#1445 GetFeature() not implemented efficiently for server based drivers

#1476 Improper handling of Postgis tables with multiple geometry columns

Other activities

• Updated documentation for drivers:
  • ODBC
  • PGeo
  • PG

• Added new tests to the GDAL autotest package:
  • FAST

• Added new test cases to:
  • Shape
  • AAIGrid

• Started analysis of GDAL ​tests coverage

• Improved GDAL Buildbot configuration

• Support on the gdal-dev list (~50 posts) and #gdal channel

• TracWiki ​subjects proposal