[Qgis-user] Problem with "add postgis layers" in qgis 1.80

[Bernhard Ströbl]

Am 19.07.2012 10:55, schrieb Jürgen E. Fischer:
> Hi Siegfried,
>
> On Thu, 19. Jul 2012 at 07:14:31 +0200, Siegfried.Blank at lazbw.bwl.de wrote:
>>     'add postgis layers" is very, very slowly in qgis 1.80 when I have many
>>     tables. It needs several (up to 10) minutes until all tables where
>>     "detecting" every time when I want add a postgis layer.
>
> Check if your tables are in geometry_columns.  If not QGIS needs to determine
> which geometry types are in table.  You can also use the "use estimated
> metadata" in the connection settings to let qgis check only a few rows in the
> tables which are not listed geometry_columns instead of all rows.
>
> Jürgen
>

sorry for the fuzz, I had the metadata tickbox checke in my 1.7 install
it is considerably faster with that setting in 1.8, too

Bernhard


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