I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced significant performance penalties when using the ArcGIS buffer function with the 'dissolve' option on point features. My dataset is a shapefile of 260 points, basically clustered into 9 groups so there is a significant amount of overlap. The buffer option executes in a second or so, while the dissolve option executes in 12 minutes. So I'd be in trouble with 10,000 points, right? ESRI knowledge base wasn't too much help.
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ArcGIS is utterly woeful for dissolving/merging. We had to do a buffer/merge for 3 million points recently and soon gave up on using ArcGIS -- their help desk didn't have much clue either. Postgres did it in less than an hour using the st_union function.
see http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2009/01/must-faster-unions-in-postgis-14.html
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