query function to support a maxfeature parameter

[assefa]

e-mail dicsussion related to the problem

Here is how things work :
  - the user does a wfs request
  - in is translated in mapserver query : the query does not take into account 
the maxfeatures.
   - The MAXFEATURES is taken into account when generating the resulting   gml 
file

  So yes, It ends up doing the query on all the shapes in your case.

 I think we should modify mapserver low level query functions to be able to 
pass a maxfeature parameter. Some of the query functions have a mode (single 
or mulitple), and this notion should be extended to support a maxfeature. Once 
this is done the wfs interface can take advantage of it.

[sdlime]

Funny, bug 551 is almost exactly the same...

[assefa]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 551 ***