[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #3704: Shapefile: please improve column management

[Quantum GIS]

#3704: Shapefile: please improve column management
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        Reporter:  Stemby                            |         Owner:  nobody          
            Type:  enhancement                       |        Status:  closed          
        Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |     Milestone:  Version 1.7.0   
       Component:  Data Provider                     |       Version:  1.6.0           
      Resolution:  invalid                           |      Keywords:  shapefile column
Platform_version:                                    |      Platform:  All             
        Must_fix:  No                                |   Status_info:  0               
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Changes (by lutra):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => invalid


Comment:

 Shapefiles columns can be added without any obstacle in many ways: trough
 the attributes table itself, trough the vector properties, trough the
 field calculator, etc.

 Columns cannot be removed but this IS a OGR limitation: in the gdal/ogr
 trac you'll find a ticket and a patch that awaits to be committed. Until
 then QGIS (and any other software that uses gdal/ogr) can only use a
 workaround to delete shapefile columns. In QGIS this "workaround" is a
 plugin called TABLE MANAGER.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3704#comment:1>
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