[Qgis-user] File based Geopackage bugs

[Patrick Dunford]

Thanks for you comment, however I did not see a reference to the issue 
of data loss when changing table structure (dropping columns etc).

On 3/02/21 11:36 am, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 at 12:12, Patrick Dunford <enzedrailmaps at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I recall going back someway we were sold this Geopackage idea being
>> implemented into Qgis because it was going to be so much better than
>> shape files that everyone has been using up to now. I bought into these
>> ideas by converting shape files in most of my Qgis projects into
>> Geopackage files.
>>
>> However there appear to be some serious bugs in Qgis' implementation of
>> Geopackages as a file based system, and since SQlite has an impeccable
>> reputation, it is a reasonable conclusion that there must be significant
>> uncorrected bugs in the Qgis code that deals with file based Geopackages.
>>
> Please have a read over the threads at
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2020-March/060584.html
> and  https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2020-May/061162.html
>
> All your issues were discussed at length in those threads -- so
> there's lots of background info there. Suffice to say, as you've
> realised, many of the issues are still outstanding and yes, geopackage
> can be a pain (a nightmare?) to use for some workflows.
>
> Nyall
>
>
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