On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> I'm inclined to treat geometry as a special case and declare we cannot
> actually sort on it, what do you think?
>
> I am trying to sort out what sorting on geometry means? Would that end up
> being kind of like a spatial index? Suppose I would
> As a result, and to my surprise, I found we can sort on geometries
> as well, since they implement Comparable.
lol - that was un expected.
> This means that if someone has a very large dataset in a DBMS
> and sorting on the geometry is requested, we'll end up dumping everything
> to file and perf
Hi,
I've just committed the feature reader/iterator sorter work in main,
it's available for everybody to use.
Made it use a single file this round, a RandomAccessFile containing
ordered feature blocks with readers seeking through it while doing
the merge-sort.
It's also quite a bit more compact tha
