Opened 12 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#2111 assigned enhancement

[raster] External band numbers are capped to 1 - 256

Reported by: Bborie Park Owned by: Bborie Park
Priority: medium Milestone: PostGIS Fund Me
Component: raster Version: master
Keywords: Cc:

Description

In looking at the code, the variable for the external band number is set to uint8_t. This is reflected by the serialized raster allocating 1 byte for the band number.

Having external band numbers set to 1 - 256 is a serious limitation considering external band data is processed through GDAL, which probably has a much higher limit.

The external band number variable should be at least uint16_t, which is the same as the number of bands variable for the raster object.

I don't know when this can be fixed as this affects the serialized raster format. The raster object does have a version flag so this fix could be introduced in PostGIS 2.1.

Change History (14)

comment:1 by Bborie Park, 11 years ago

Milestone: PostGIS FuturePostGIS 2.2.0

I've hit this bug working with DAYMET datasets which use a band for each day of a particular year.

comment:2 by robe, 11 years ago

So does that mean in the docs for 2.0 and 2.1 we need to say raster band count is limited to 255 bands? If you want to get it in before I release 2.1 (like in a week) I can wait and just note the issue in 2.0.

comment:3 by Bborie Park, 11 years ago

I won't be able to get this in before 2.1 as it will require a small but significant change to the serialized format. I'll add notes regarding the issue to the docs for 2.0 and 2.1.

comment:4 by pracine, 11 years ago

Aren't changes to the serial format allowed only at major version (3.0)?

comment:5 by Bborie Park, 11 years ago

Only things that require a hard dump/reload are permitted in major versions. This change is possible because there is a version flag in the serialized format.

comment:6 by Bborie Park, 11 years ago

Notes added in r11715 for 2.0 and in r11716 for 2.1.

comment:7 by Bborie Park, 11 years ago

Should there be RFCs for changing the raster's serialized and WKB formats? The only changes I plan on making is bumping up the format version numbers to 1 and change the variable type for out-db band indexes from uint8 to uint16.

comment:8 by Bborie Park, 11 years ago

This format change would be done for PostGIS 2.2, which will still support version 0 formats. PostGIS 2.0 and 2.1 will only support version 0 formats unless folks think otherwise...

comment:9 by Bborie Park, 11 years ago

Status: newassigned

comment:10 by Bborie Park, 11 years ago

My bad. ST_PixelAsPolygons was a pl/pgsql function in 2.0.

in reply to:  10 comment:11 by Bborie Park, 11 years ago

Replying to dustymugs:

My bad. ST_PixelAsPolygons was a pl/pgsql function in 2.0.

Oops. Wrong ticket.

comment:12 by Bborie Park, 10 years ago

Milestone: PostGIS 2.2.0PostGIS Future

comment:13 by robe, 7 years ago

Milestone: PostGIS FuturePostGIS Fund Me

Milestone renamed

comment:14 by Algunenano, 5 years ago

Priority: criticalmedium
Type: defectenhancement

The fact that this is assigned to "PostGIS Fund Me" leads me to believe that this isn't critical.

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