[Qgis-user] QGIS 2.10.1 adding PostGIS Views

[James Keener]

Why are you assuming the user who created the view is the one using QGIS?

Jim

On 09/01/2015 08:50 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> 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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