[Qgis-psc] QGIS grant report: Fix handling of provider default value clauses/Autogenerate/nextval(...) handling

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Thank you Nyall,

it's great to see this issue finally fixed in a proper way!


On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 4:43 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> HI PSC,
>
> I'd like to report the current status of the grant project: "QGIS grant report: Fix handling of provider default value clauses/Autogenerate/nextval(...) handling" (see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/247)
>
> The bulk of these changes landed in the QGIS 3.28 release, and we should start seeing a decrease in the number of related issues.
>
> A quick way to demonstrate on of the issues fixed is:
>
> - open a geopackage file
> - start editing the layer, add some features to it, but don't save the edits
> - right click the edited layer and try to save it to a different file
>
> On older qgis releases you'll be spammed with a number of error messages because we tried to write a string value of "Autogenerate" into a number field for all the newly created features. On QGIS 3.28 this all just works as expected, with no errors encountered.
>
> While the bulk of this work is now complete, I've allowed for some of the grant funding to cover all required follow up work as the new approach gets wider testing in a stable release. Accordingly I'll be monitoring any related incoming bug reports and addressing them as part of the grant funds.
>
> Thanks again for the opportunity to undertake this work!
>
> Nyall
>
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