[Qgis-user] GeoPackage deadlocks (Andrea Peri)

[Luigi Pirelli]

without resting importance to the issue, reading the bug report, I can read
you moved from oracle spatial to geopackage! why not postgis?

Luigi Pirelli

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On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 09:39, Paul Wittle <paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk>
wrote:

> Hi,
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>
> I couldn’t see a bug report which I thought matched so I have added one as
> requests but please accept my apologies if it does turn out to be a
> duplicate or if my use of the word deadlock is incorrect.
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> The ticket can be found at https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/32034
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> It would be great if others that have experienced the issue could provide
> any further relevant comments as I’ve not got it as well documented as I’d
> like. Sorry, time constraints in the office.
>
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
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> *From:* Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 27 September 2019 08:20
> *To:* Paul Wittle <P.Wittle at dorsetcc.gov.uk>
> *Cc:* qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] GeoPackage deadlocks (Andrea Peri)
>
>
>
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>
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 9:13 AM Paul Wittle <
> paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrea and Enrico,
>
> Thank you for providing an answer even if it was not what I was hoping to
> hear; it was the conclusion I'd reached myself.
>
> Has this issue been considered given the official move from shapefile to
> geopackage as the default format?
>
> My understanding was that shapefiles could be used over a network and
> whilst multiple people editing was dangerous it did not cause deadlocks.
>
> Combined with the issues relating to MapInfo tab files over a network I've
> got into some hot water over my attempt to get QGIS rolled out in our
> organisation now. I'm going to have to think carefully about my next steps
> as it can be difficult to educate large numbers of staff and the two issues
> mean that people using QGIS incorrectly can cause pretty big issues.
>
> To summarise,
>  - You open a geopackage and save to the network; someone else comes along
> and opens it in their QGIS and everything looks okay until the PCs
> deadlock...ICT help calls and data corruption may occur.
>  - You open a MapInfo tab file from the network and it looks fine (accept
> that it my draw in a user projection). MapInfo user receive errors but this
> is unknown to the QGIS user...ICT help calls result.
>
> Whilst I'm glad the forums have helped to diagnose both behaviours I would
> personally say that the issues pose a bit of a threat to software adoption
> by larger companies and institutions that may be using Windows networks and
> potentially migrating from MapInfo.
>
> In both cases my gut feel is that the best solution might be to look into
> use detection. If GDAL (I assume) can be improved to detect that either
> file type is already open then it might be possible to simply ban a second
> user from opening the file at the same time. This might frustrate some
> users but most importantly it would make the application safer from an ICT
> perspective.
>
> These are of course just my personal opinion from my particular use case
> so please don't be offended by them if you disagree but I'd be really happy
> to hear how others are approaching the issues and/or opposing views?
>
> Many thanks,
> Paul
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>
>
>
>
> Hi Paul,
>
>
>
> A deadlock is a QGIS bug (and quite a serious one).
>
>
>
> Can you please file an issue on https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues ?
>
> Please check if it's not there, and if it is, you can add your comments to
> the existing issue.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> --
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> Alessandro Pasotti
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