[Qgis-user] SHP/DBF provider filtering doesn't seem to work

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Tobias,

On Tue, 26. Feb 2019 at 14:04:55 +0100, Tobias Wendorff wrote:
> Think older: it's plain old native dBase function:
> https://www.dbase.com/help/9_4/String_Objects/IDH_LEFT_FUNC.htm
> 
> Since the function is "provider filtering", I thought this would
> use the native capabilities of the DBF format.

Ok, then just the assumption is wrong.  ogr doesn't support dbase functions.
I'd consider shape a storage format and nothing else anyway - and the esri
shapefile technical description doesn't mention any functions either.


Jürgen

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