[QGIS-Developer] QGIS/OGR: FeatureIds reassigned on write to data provider?

[Even Rouault]

On lundi 10 juillet 2017 15:01:56 CEST Régis Haubourg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This should clearly be restricted to Shapefiles. Other drivers don't have
> 
> > this compaction logic and will let happily holes in the feature ids.
> 
> What about Mapinfo TAB, which relies on DBF like shapefiles, and dbf files ?

Deleted records are flagged as such in the .dat/.dbf files (with '*' character , which is also 
what the Shapefile driver use for non-compacted deleted DBF records) and in the .map file. 
There's no compaction logic.

I don't remember of having heard about compatibility issues with MapInfo regarding this 
(but my memories can be wrong :-)), so I assume MapInfo does the same

Even

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