[Qgis-user] copy layer to scratch

[Tobias Wendorff]

Hi Nyall,

Am Fr, 31.08.2018, 23:09 schrieb Nyall Dawson:
> I thought I was the only one who did silly hacks to make a in-memory
> copy.

I've got 64 GiB of RAM... so why not use this :-)

But I think, most of the non-native processing tools need SHP or
GPKG ... but dumping from RAM to SSD is quick.

> My favourite way is to use the "assign projection" algorithm,
> because that's effectively a no-op and the fastest way available.

Ah, good idea. This one isn't modifying the data table: no-op!

> I think based on this thread there's demand for a pure "Duplicate
> layer" algorithm -- coming shortly!

Wow, nice. Thanks! @-->--->-------

Best regards,
Tobias