Hello Assefa,

Yewondwossen Assefa <yass...@dmsolutions.ca>, [20110223 - 22:52:33]

> On 23/02/2011 8:06 AM, Stephan Holl wrote:
> > Hello Assefa,
> >
> > Yewondwossen Assefa<yass...@dmsolutions.ca>, [20110223 - 07:26:34]
> >
> >> Hi Stephan,
> >>
> >> On 22/02/2011 3:44 AM, Stephan Holl wrote:
> >>> Hello list,
> >>>
> >>> while playing with MapServer WFS Filter Encoding capabilities I
> >>> found some strange things when it comes to form the DB-queries
> >>> (the requested layer is PostGIS-driven).
> >>>
> >>> It seems that there will always be a full table-scan and later on
> >>> the FE will be applied. Is this done by design?
> >>>
> >>    Filters that do include spatial filters end up using the
> >> mapserver experssions. 'Simple' filters should end be using
> >> traslated into the layer's filter expression and end up being used
> >> by postgis as part of the data selection. What does the filter
> >> encoding looks like?
> > It is not a spatial-filter we use currently. It is an
> > attribute-based IsLike-Filter like seen here[1], but we use it with
> > POST. So adding a BBOX-related filter as another AND-filter will
> > result in optimized SQL-Query with only the subset fetched from the
> > database? If so, this seems worth to document though.
> >
>   The filter you sent as example should use the layer's filter
> element and that  should be used when retrieving the data at the
> postgis level. When the layer is in debug mode,  MapServer 5.6.x logs
> in this case shows something like (which indicates that the filter is
> used at the postgis level)
> ...
> msPostGISLayerWhichShapes  query: select .... and ( (NAME like 'Syd%' 
> escape '!') )

yes, I will get the above query-entries. But before of that there is
another query stated in the logs:

select * from "projects_with_location" where false limit 0

which pointed me to a (false) conclusion.

Thank you for clarifying thouh.

Best

        Stephan

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