[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #62: Qgis only supports postgres keys of type int

[Quantum GIS]

#62: Qgis only supports postgres keys of type int
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        Reporter:  g_j_m                             |         Owner:  jef          
            Type:  enhancement                       |        Status:  new          
        Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |     Milestone:  Version 2.0.0
       Component:  Data Provider                     |       Version:  HEAD         
      Resolution:                                    |      Keywords:               
Platform_version:                                    |      Platform:  All          
        Must_fix:  No                                |   Status_info:  0            
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Changes (by springmeyer):

 * cc: springmeyer (added)

Comment:

 +1 to this being made more flexible. uDig/geotools provides a much more
 noticeably more flexible approach to reading in postgis tablea (even
 without a unique id field), so perhaps this could might be a good
 reference:

 http://svn.geotools.org/trunk/modules/plugin/postgis/src/main/java/org/geotools/data/postgis/
 autogeneration of fids:
 http://svn.geotools.org/trunk/modules/plugin/postgis/src/main/java/org/geotools/data/postgis/fidmapper/

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/62#comment:10>
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