Spatial views and geometry size limits

Couchbase Server
1

Whenever I add a document to my data bucket, with a very large geometry, e.g.:

{"id": "1234",
 "geometry": {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[145,-38],[145.1,-38.1], ...10,000 more ... ]]}}

I get the error:

{"error":"error","reason":"{index_builder_exit,139,<<>>}"}

from queries such as:

http://localhost:8092/feature/_design/dev_foo/_spatial/bar?bbox=-180%2C-90%2C180%2C90&stale=false&connection_timeout=60000&full_set=true

where ‘bar’ is the most basic spatial view:

function (doc) {
    if (doc.geometry) {
        emit(doc.geometry, null);
    }
}

I’ve verified that it’s caused by the geometry being too large. I’ve generated Polygons (squares) with an increasing number of points, and beyond a certain amount, the queries fail.

Is there a documented limit on how big the geometry can be for spatial queries? Is there a workaround, or at least the ability to ignore geometries that are too large, instead of failing completely?

I’m using Couchbase server 3.0.2

Thanks for your help,

2

Thanks for bringing up the issue. There are no known limits. I’ll have a look and filed a bug MB-14401 for it in case you want to track it.

3

Quick update. I can reproduce it. There should be an error in the mapreduce.log. Something like:

[mapreduce_errors:error,2015-04-09T23:31:17.597,couchdb_n_0@127.0.0.1:<0.1684.0>:couch_set_view_updater:-do_maps/3-fun-0-:783]Bucket `default`, main group `_design/dev_foo`, error mapping document `doc-428` for view `baz`: too long key emitted: 4099 bytes

It of course isn’t right as it should evaluate the size of the key after the geometry was processed. Let’s hope it’s easy to do :slight_smile:

4

It’s fixed for the upcoming release.

A workaround for the current version would be that you calculate the bounding box before you emit it and use it as a key. Though you then won’t have the original geometry in the result expect if you emit it as a key.

See more about the current API at https://github.com/couchbase/geocouch/wiki/Spatial-Views-API (until the docs for the upcoming version are published).

5

Thank you very much for the very fast turnaround.

Until that release, we will do as you suggest: calculate the bounding box of each over-sized geometry first.