[QGIS-Developer] GPKG and FID -- can we fix this mess?

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 17:48, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>
> Hi Nyall, others,
>
> Il 14/10/20 00:54, Nyall Dawson ha scritto:
>
> > Yes, ideally. But at this stage we can't completely hide the fid field
> > without breaking existing QGIS projects. Breaking scripts is bad, but
> > breaking projects is a complete no-go!
> wouldn't it be feasible to write a simple utility to upgrade existing
> projects?

That's definitely not simple ... there's so many parts of a QGIS
project which could potential reference a field from a layer, and even
if we caught them all it would be extremely tricky to work out what to
change them to...

Nyall


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