has_spatialite {gdalraster}

Is SpatiaLite available?

Description

has_spatialite() returns a logical value indicating whether GDAL was built with support for the SpatiaLite library. SpatiaLite extends the SQLite core to support full Spatial SQL capabilities.

Usage

has_spatialite()

Details

GDAL supports executing SQL statements against a datasource. For most file formats (e.g. Shapefiles, GeoJSON, FlatGeobuf files), the built-in OGR SQL dialect will be used by default. It is also possible to request the alternate "SQLite" dialect, which will use the SQLite engine to evaluate commands on GDAL datasets. This assumes that GDAL is built with support for SQLite, and preferably with Spatialite support too to benefit from spatial functions.

Value

Logical scalar. TRUE if SpatiaLite is available to GDAL.

Note

All GDAL/OGR drivers for database systems, e.g., PostgreSQL / PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, SQLite / Spatialite RDBMS, GeoPackage, etc., override the GDALDataset::ExecuteSQL() function with a dedicated implementation and, by default, pass the SQL statements directly to the underlying RDBMS. In these cases the SQL syntax varies in some particulars from OGR SQL. Also, anything possible in SQL can then be accomplished for these particular databases. For those drivers, it is also possible to explicitly request the OGRSQL or SQLite dialects, although performance will generally be much less than the native SQL engine of those database systems.

See Also

ogrinfo(), ogr_execute_sql()

OGR SQL dialect and SQLITE SQL dialect:
https://gdal.org/user/ogr_sql_sqlite_dialect.html

Examples

has_spatialite()