<html><head></head><body>I guess I'm still not fully understanding the problem. I don't understand what problem the normalization is causing you. You shouldn't need to duplicate the rows in different tables when you duplicate one in another table.<br>
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To edit fields in QGIS you need to enable editing on the layer and then you can get end editable form for each feature or you can edit directly in the attribute table. Copy and pasting features in QGIS copied all of the attributes as well.<br>
<br>
Can you give a more complete example of the issue you're facing?<br>
<br>
Jim<br>
<br>
Jim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On April 18, 2015 12:11:38 PM EDT, Luciano <br.analistagis@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">Yes</span><span class="">, I'm using</span> <span class="">QGIS</span><span>.</span> <span class="">I agree</span><span>,</span> <span class="">if I make a</span> <span class="">table</span> <span class="">in the database</span> <span class="">with the same structure</span> <span class="">the shape file</span> <span class="">is simple.</span> <span class="">The</span> <span class="">copy / paste</span> <span class="">works perfectly</span><span>.</span><br /> <span class="">But</span> <span class="">my question</span> <span class="">is</span> <span class="">how to update</span> <span class="">for example</span> <span class="">the</span> <span class="">blocks</span> <span class="">table</span><span>,</span> <span class="">using the</span> <span class="">copy / paste,</span> <span class="">since</span> <span class="">the database</span> <span class="">structure is</span> <span class="">different.</span><br
/> <span class="">For example</span><span>,</span> <span class="">if I copy</span> <span class="">a polygon</span> <span class="">layer</span> <span class="">shape</span><span>,</span> <span class="">and try to</span> <span class="">stick to the</span> <span class="">database</span> <span class="">layer</span><span>, the fields</span> <span class="">of the new</span> <span class="">polygon</span> <span class="">will be</span> <span class="">void.</span><br /> <span class="">Note that</span> <span class="">my</span> <span class="">database</span> <span class="">blocks</span> <span class="">table does not have</span> <span class="">the same structure</span> <span class="">of the</span> <span class="">shape file</span> <span class="">because it</span> <span class="">is</span> <span class="">normalized</span> <span class="">(or should be</span><span>), so</span> <span class="">the fields</span> <span class="">of</span> <span class="">two data sources</span> <span class="">do not
match.</span><br /> <span class="">In this case</span><span>, what is the</span> <span class="">best</span> <span class="">practice?<br /><br /></span></span></div><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">tia<br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">2015-04-18 12:44 GMT-03:00 James Keener <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@jimkeener.com" target="_blank">jim@jimkeener.com</a>></span>:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">tl;dr: Have you tried QGIS?<br />
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What were you using to copy/paste before? I didn't think straight<br />
editing of the DBaseIII files directly was a sane thing to do, as<br />
they're linked up with the shape and shape-index files.<br />
<br />
PostGIS is just a PostgreSQL database, so any editor that can allow you<br />
to edit/duplicate PostgreSQL tables could work. As for mutating<br />
geometries, maybe QGIS? That would also allow you to edit geometries,<br />
attributes, as well as duplicate features.<br />
<br />
Hope that helps,<br />
Jim<br />
<div><div class="h5"><br />
On 04/18/2015 11:39 AM, Luciano wrote:<br />
><br />
> Hi,<br />
> I wonder how can I update a postgresql postgis database before the<br />
> following scenario:<br />
> Always worked with shape files and update them used copy / paste between<br />
> files.<br />
> Now, think about creating a database in PostgreSQL and would like to<br />
> continue using copy / paste to update polygons, but in my database<br />
> structure is different from the shape file. For example:<br />
> Imagine that the shapefile have all the fields in one table, already in<br />
> the database, by reason of standardization, have these columns in tables<br />
> distinct. Below is an example of a register of towns.<br />
><br />
> File shape, columns:<br />
> town code;<br />
> town description;<br />
> Neighborhood code;<br />
> name of the neighborhood;<br />
> block code;<br />
> Street code;<br />
> street name;<br />
><br />
> In Postgres / Gis could look like this:<br />
><br />
> Cities table (data):<br />
> - Town id<br />
> - Description of town<br />
><br />
> Neighborhoods table (data):<br />
> - Id of the neighborhood<br />
> - Description of the neighborhood<br />
> - Id of town (foreign key)<br />
><br />
> Blocks table:<br />
> - Id of the court<br />
> - Block of code<br />
> - Town id (foreign key)<br />
> - Geometry, polygon<br />
><br />
> Streets table:<br />
> - Street id<br />
> - Street name<br />
> - Town id (foreign key)<br />
> - Geometry, line<br />
><br />
> How could update (insert) a block in postgresql table using copy / paste<br />
> the shape file?<br />
> Would have to create a trigger/procedure (instead of) to automate the<br />
> process?<br />
> Fields of shape file should be equal to the fields of database table?<br />
> Some practical example as a reference?<br />
><br />
> tia<br />
> --<br />
> Luciano<br />
><br />
><br />
><br />
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