[QGIS-Developer] Status of transaction support in Geopackages

[Hugo Mercier]

Hi Mark,

On 27/02/2018 11:12, Mark Johnson wrote:
>>> that we get rid of the current provider and rely on GDAL only.
> 
> With the 'current provider' I assume you mean the Spatialite-Provider.
> 
> Please remember that the Spatialite-Provider was never designed to
> support GeoPackage.
> 
> Please also remember that Gdal/Ogr does not support all aspects of
> Spatialite
> - writable SpatialViews are not supported
> 
> The present QgsOgrProvider does not support Spatialite-Tables with more
> than 1 geometry properly. 

Would it be possible to add these to the QgsOgrProvider, or are there
some limitations ?

> 
> A new Spatialite-Provider is being actively worked on and is earmarked
> for Qgis 3.2, that will deal with the present problems as well as
> supporting the extra functionality of Spatialite 5.0.

Nice ! Good to know.