On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Steve Lime <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all: Consider this a survey of sorts. I'm wondering how many of you make > use of saving queries, either via the CGI or MapScript. It's an old feature > that isn't terribly useful and I'm trying to understand the pain the > community might incur if they go away in 6.0. If you didn't know they existed > or how you might use them then it's safe to say you don't need 'em. > > Steve
This is more of a vote in support of the elimination of queryfiles and my comments more for people who do use queryfiles. I used to use queryfiles alot but I no longer do. The main reason that I stopped using them is because of their limited persistence. If a user highlights a result set and bookmarks it, and then I delete all temporary files from my server in a nightly cron job, their link is broken. I have found that persisting the original query in the filter parameter is just as easy as using queryfiles. Maybe this is slower because the query gets executed each time the map is refreshed. And maybe there are other benefits of queryfiles that I have never taken advantage of. Rich -- Richard Greenwood [email protected] www.greenwoodmap.com _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
