[postgis-users] Updating PostGIS views from Geoserver

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Regina,

I am pretty sure it is a restriction by Geoserver, but I am not a 
Geoserver user, so I may be wrong. I am using updateable  views  with 
Postgis and QGIS and it works fine, as long as it finds a primary key 
(integer and unique). Did you make sure that you have a "primary key" in 
your view?

It may be that Geoserver:

- is not accepting views for inserts/updates/deletes at all
- is not seeing/accepting the rules
- does not find a primary key but requires one

I know other software that is not accepting views for updates/inserts 
although the rules are present (e.g. pgadmin3)

Updateable views are very cool - I also use them to distribute to 
different tables and for historization purposes.

Andreas

Paragon Corporation wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the best list to try, but hoping someone may have a
> solution to this and since I'm not on the geoserver list, figured I would
> try this one first.
>
> In one of the projects we have,  we have a PostgreSQL view with update,
> insert, select rules on it.  I am told that geoserver sees this as a
> read-only table since it can't see the indexes on it.
>
> Is this a limitation of Geoserver and if so is there a workaround around
> this?
>
> The main reason we need the view is that we are trying to retrieve
> information and update a field in another table from data inserted/updated
> in the view so need these virtual fields to be present.
>
> I played around with the idea of creating a real table that mirrors the
> structure of the view and putting an instead of select rule on the table,
> but I guess this is not legal if a table has indexes which would seem to
> defeat the purpose since it would make the table equally unattractive to
> geoserver.
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
>
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