Thanks. Further investigation suggests a QGIS bug. It's trying to determine geometry type on views. This is a problem for me since one of my views has almost 12,000,000 rows.<div><br></div><div>Bug report filed with QGIS: <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3453">http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3453</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>It seems there is no way to find a geometry type of a view without inspecting the data?</div><div><div><br></div><div>Aren<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/1/30 Nicklas Avén <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicklas.aven@jordogskog.no">nicklas.aven@jordogskog.no</a>></span><br>
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<p>Hallo
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<br>I have no answer to your question but I know that QGIS doesn't require a representation in geometry columns table.
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<br>/nicklas
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<br>> I noticed this really inefficient query when QGIS was importing a Postgis
<br>> layer:
<br>> *select distinct case when geometrytype("the_geom") IN
<br>> ('POINT','MULTIPOINT') THEN 'POINT' when geometrytype("the_geom") IN
<br>> ('LINESTRING','MULTILINESTRING') THEN 'LINESTRING' when
<br>> geometrytype("the_geom") IN ('POLYGON','MULTIPOLYGON') THEN 'POLYGON' end
<br>> from [databaseGoesHere]*
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<br>> That surprised me because QGIS should already know the *geometrytype
<br>> *through the *geomerty_columns* table.
<br>>
<br>> Is this really QGIS's fault, or did Postgis cause/require this? Want to
<br>> make sure before I file a bug report.
<br>>
<br>> Thanks,
<br>>
<br>> Aren
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