This was an attempt to part-read really massive shapefiles with VRT, by allowing access to the SQL facilities in GDAL.
But, it was hopelessly slow for drivers that did not support random-access.
GDAL is now better supported for this. But, this package does a more fundamental attempt at solving the problem:
https://github.com/hypertidy/vapour
I might resurrect this just for fun to show how VRT works, some day
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