Hi Jukka,

What one of our developer have found with oracle enterprise edition is that the 
 database actually optimize the query when a query is made outside the bounds 
of the dataset. However when we ran the same query on a oracle standard 
edition, the query crashed the database. We have logged a ticket with Oracle as 
part of our contract with them and its currently under investigation.

You are right when you mention that data added in the future may fall outside 
the bbox range specified hence as part of the requirement, it has to be an 
optional configuration.

I am unsure why would bbox be inaccurate. The idea is not to filter against a 
preset bbox for a particular country, rather to filter only on data that reside 
within the bounding box specified.  The bbox in Geoserver currently for each 
layer can be calculated or manually added. This bbox can potentially span 
across countries however as far as we are concerned, if the option is turned 
on, any queries that does not intersect with the bbox should  return a empty 
result. Please explain if I have misinterpreted something, my spatial knowledge 
is still rudimental.


From: Rahkonen Jukka (MML) [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, 6 February 2015 7:22 AM
To: Jiang, Lingbo (Digital, Marsfield); 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-devel] Propose to add an option for latLongBoundingBox 
range checking before database query.


Hi,



I think that such check should be optional. The bounding box that gets saved 
when the layer is created may not stay valid if the data are updated and new 
features are added with WFS-T or just directly to the data source. And 
obviously the check should only stop the queries if BBOX is totally outside the 
data extents.



I do not know how expensive the out-of-range requests are but I guess that 
bounding box filter could only make things faster but not any slower. But if 
you decide to go that way, why to do the test with an inaccurate bounding box? 
About 50% of the BBOX of Finland is actually Sweden, Russia, Norway, or empty 
sea. How about making an additional configuration option "Bounding Polygon" and 
use that? A further development step would be to make the integrated GWC to 
utilize this Bounding Polygon as well.



-Jukka Rahkonen-



________________________________
Lingbo Jiang wrote:

Hi Geoserver community,
For every WMS layer that has latLongBoundingBox set up in the config, GeoServer 
may restrict the request to the configured latLongBoundingBox. At the moment, 
it doesn't, and this results in unnecessary query and wastes connections and 
cursors (for Oracle).
Thus I propose to add an option in the code for latLongBoundingBox range 
checking. the option will allow to filter the none result query which is out of 
latLongBoundingBox range and improve the performance.
If community reckon that it is the right way, I am willing to submit a code 
patch to implement it if necessary.
Thanks first,
Lingbo

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