[Qgis-developer] Requirement for int4 column on PostGIS access

Jürgen E. Fischer jef at norbit.de
Sat Aug 30 22:09:03 EDT 2008


Hi Jochen,

On Sat, 30. Aug 2008 at 16:42:42 +0200, Jochen Topf wrote:
> Currently QGIS requires a int4 column with unique IDs for accessing data
> in a PostGIS database. I routinely work with OpenStreetMap data which
> uses int8 for its IDs. Currently the OSM IDs still fit into an int4, but
> this will not work forever. At the moment its a bit of a hassle that I
> always have to keep this limitation in mind.

BTW there is a bug report about this: https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/62

Jürgen

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