[Qgis-user] QGIS loaded millions of entries

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey Tobias,

What Nyall posted is the only work around here.

> If you go to settings -> options -> data sources you can change
"attribute table behaviour" to "show features visible on map"

That means it will only request what you see in the map.

- Nathan

On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Tobias Wendorff <
tobias.wendorff at tu-dortmund.de> wrote:

> Am Sa, 4.03.2017, 09:43 schrieb Raymond Nijssen:
> > You seem to know about databases. For me, when my data passes around 1
> > million records, I turn to work directly in the database
> > (using pgadmin) and only use qgis for visualising the results.
>
> That's okay for database-guys like us. But viewing attributes in the
> table is a common task, f.e. for the co-works in my office. It would
> be very hard for them to understand, why to get out of QGIS just
> to watch the attribute table :)
>
> I think, limiting the amount of data to the current view will be a big
> benefit.
>
>
> > On 04-03-17 09:28, Tobias Wendorff wrote:
> >> Am Sa, 4.03.2017, 09:25 schrieb Nathan Woodrow:
> >>> Hmm are you sure we don't do this already?
> >>
> >> Because the counter of attribute table increased to some hundret
> >> thousand entries and my QGIS v2.18.3 got grayed out in the back,
> >> leading to a crash some seconds after :(
> >>
> >> With an unsaved project of course :)
>
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