[Qgis-user] cannot create an integer attribute with daphnis

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Maning,

On Tue, 08. Sep 2009 at 13:06:21 +0800, maning sambale wrote:
> When we tried creating a new polygon shapefile, three options for
> attribute type is listed (string, real, integer).  We selected integer
> but when we loaded the shapefile, attribute table reports it is a REAL
> number.

How wide is your integer?   OGR will recognize any integer as real when it's
width exceeds 10 digits.
 

Jürgen

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