[Qgis-user] Slooooow spatial joins

Ryan Peel ryanpeel at gmail.com
Tue May 18 03:24:22 PDT 2021


I can appreciate that but it forces to create another layer/file I think.
I really don't want to have to re-import my entire table back into postgis
just to get this one column.

On Mon, May 17, 2021, 10:29 PM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 11:59, Ryan Peel <ryanpeel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have tried using MMQGIS plugin, refFunctions geomwith function and the
> aggregate function.  I am using 3.18 QGIS
> >
> > Despite having spatial indexes on both tables, when I try to use any of
> these operations to assign the value of a field in the polygon layer to one
> in the point layer, it goes very slow.  Like, ridiculously slow and of no
> value.  And, I only have 600 records in the points layer and just a few
> thousand records in the polygon layer.
> >
> > What can I do to speed this up?
>
> The absolute fastest way to join is to use the Processing tool: Join
> Attributes by Location -- no plugins necessary :D
>
> Nyall
>
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