[Qgis-user] QGIS 2.10.1 adding PostGIS Views

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

I agree with Jürgen - better let the user choose the pkey column. If the 
user knows how to create a Postgis View he also knows how to select a 
primary key column.

Andreas

On 01.09.2015 14:37, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> Hi Sandro,
>
> On Tue, 01. Sep 2015 at 13:48:33 +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>> I agree with Luca this should have been better not backported to 2.8.3.
>> Only proper bugs should be backported, and this was a (debatable)
>> GUI enhancement, as far as I can tell.
> We intend to only backport fixes and not bugs. ;)
>
> You were always supposed to select the key column - preselecting the first
> column was the bug (also debatable).  And #11317 is a ticket that demonstrates
> there were unaware users.
>
> That the first column often happens to be the primary key and and the combobox
> is not lexically sorted is somewhat pure luck - and unless you avoid having the
> key verified (using "use estimated metadata"), keeping a wrongly select
> column will make the layer to insert invalid.
>
> But I agree that the tooltip that you get on disabled lines (not only for the
> key selection, but also geometry type and srid) might not be visible enough
> (but that IMHO would be just a GUI enhancement).
>
>
> Jürgen
>
>
>
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