On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Sandro Santilli <[email protected]> wrote: >> > What happens if you delete a feature from a shapefile ? >> >> Apparently OGR only marks the feature as deleted in DBF, other IDs are >> not changed. > > Note that one advantage of delegating to providers setting up a mapping > is we could finally drop the requirement of an integer identifier in > postgresql. There are real-world cases in which primary key is a text > identifier.
Ok now I got where you were heading. Yes, a mechanism for mapping non-int primary keys (or even multiple column primary keys) to int IDs would be nice - but that does not mean that [0,N-1] range has to be enforced. Martin _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
