>From the testing I've done (http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/1808)
where I test pixel for pixel what is stored in PostGIS raster versus
what GDAL sees in the source raster, I can't find anything wrong.  But,
only time will tell.

-bborie

On 08/23/2012 04:53 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
> 1.9.1 - yes, I saw your discussion about GDAL problems.  Maybe the rounding 
> bug has something to do with it, but even when no bounding box is used from 
> GDAL (like when I just want to query what the extent is of the whole raster), 
> I get the wrong extents and horrible performance.
> 
> I'd like to at least verify that the PostGIS raster is OK first.  GDAL dev is 
> not really a good option since I need to deploy the extraction scripts on a 
> few computers very soon, and it's best if I can use a packaged distribution.
> 
> The vrt of the original geotiffs works, so that's what I'll probably be using.
> 
> On Aug 23, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Bborie Park wrote:
> 
>> What version of GDAL are you using?  Could you try GDAL trunk?  I don't
>> trust anything other than trunk (1.9.x or below) due to various bugs.
>> At some point, I'll dig into the PostGIS raster driver...
>>
>> -bborie
>>
>> On 08/23/2012 07:01 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>> almost forgot: PostGIS 2.0.1, on PG 9.1.4.  PPC OS X.
>>>
>>> On Aug 23, 2012, at 8:46 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>>
>>>> I created a raster table for a large area of DEM data, with index and 
>>>> constraints, no overviews.  When I run gdalinfo on the table, it takes 
>>>> about 15m to query to get the extents, which are then wrong.
>>>>
>>>> Original 32bit float geotiffs = 27GiB (uncompressed), 84W, 36N to 71W, 
>>>> 45.5N (not complete coverage)
>>>>
>>>> In PostGIS = 25GiB, 74W, 33.5N to 61W, 43N
>>>>
>>>> There are 15936 records in the table, which matches the number of input 
>>>> TIFFs and the tile size I used (actually 22 more than the input), so it 
>>>> looks like all the data was imported.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like the data was shifted 10 deg east and 2.5 deg south.
>>>>
>>>> When I try to extract a region from that with gdal_translate, it takes the 
>>>> 15m to check the extants again, then extracts garbage.
>>>>
>>>> I'm just getting started with PG rasters and don't know enough about the 
>>>> SQL needed to check within PG if everything is OK there or not (extents, 
>>>> extract some data to tif) or if it's a GDAL problem.
>>>>
>>>> A GDAL vrt of the geotiffs processes quickly and reports the correct 
>>>> extents.
>>>>
>>>> -----
>>>> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
>>>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>>>>
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>>>>
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> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
> 
> All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
> 
> 
> 

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