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

[Bernhard Ströbl]

Hi Jürgen,

Am 19.07.2012 11:15, schrieb 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.

I already realized that (see the post before my last post)
>
>> 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.

also as a user - how?

Bernhard


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