[Qgis-user] Problem with "add postgis layers" in qgis 1.80

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Bernhard,

On Thu, 19. Jul 2012 at 11:01:24 +0200, Bernhard Ströbl wrote:
> Therefore QGIS 1.7.4 loads the view with an sql-query e.g.  
> "upper(geometrytype("the_geom")) IN ('POLYGON','MULTIPOLYGON')" whereas  
> 1.8 does not. So 1.7 only checked 100 features and detected their  
> geometry type and made sure that only fitting types are loaded by  
> setting an appropriate query.

You checked "use estimated metadata" in 1.7, but apparently not in 1.8.

> Also QGIS 1.7 offered the possibility to already open a schema while  
> still detecting. The type said "waiting" for the views in question but  
> you could nevertheless load a layer where the geometry type was already  
> detected (e.g. because it is registered in geometry_columns).

The detection is now done in a thread, so you can cancel the detection.


Jürgen

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