[udig-devel] Re: Some questions

[Adrian Custer]

Hey Jody, all,

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 12:37 -0700, Jody Garnett wrote:
> I think the shx file is important and is what is used to tie your 
> geometry (ie shp) and data (ie dbf) to each other.

>From my esri days, that's not right. ArcView used to be able to
regenerate a .shx file from the others, unless you created nasty
topology to trip up their algorithm. The index file was, as indexes tend
to be, an optimization. I think the link between the .dbf and the .shp
is done by id (ie by order) but I'm not sure about that.

--adrian