[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] donating read-only api-mirrors

[Stefan de Konink]

Matthias Julius wrote:
> Is anyone relying on the ascending ID order?  

Even then; the ordering can be done in SQL.

> To be able to send proper error codes to the client when something
> goes wrong halfway down the path the data could be cached on disk and
> sent out once it is complete.

This is significant overhead. Just stream out, if there is really a 
problem; just close the current open tag {node,way,relation} and append 
<error>Whatever</error> after it.


Stefan