[Qgis-user] Remote Access by Multiple Users

[Greg Troxel]

Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> writes:

>> What happens if multiple people try to use the same project?  Are
>> changes by one person propagated back to others as they are opened?
>> How are write-write conflicts handled?
>
> There is no conflict handling. The one that writes last wins.
>
>> Or is the norm that projects are opened readonly by most people, and
>> rarely changed?
>
> This depends of course on the workflow and situation. I don't think one can
> make a general statement here.

It sounds like

  When multiple people are using the same project file, whether via
  pgsql or a shared filesystem, they need to have a plan for performing
  writes to that project file, because there is no mechanism for merges
  or handling conflicts.

is the general statement then.