Shapefiles like it or not are here to stay for more years, I would suggest to stop this non sense discussion. Spatialite is nice but really not as widely used as many people think, plus I keep getting errors in QGIS when making them.
Shapefiles have limitations but at the end you would need to support what ever format people used. QGIS is clunky when dealing with joins, I can't do a join and just have matching records easily. I wouldn't have an average user deal with Spatialite or Postgresql to do a join when they would want a simple way to do it. I have had issues with the current way QGIS handles joins because it's not what I am used to. At the end QGIS needs to support shapefiles because like it or not is kind of a defacto format in GIS and to some point "interoperable", as any GIS software can almost certainly read/write shapefiles unlike other formats. Is this good/bad I think they are arguments for either one but lets not get into it -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Intended-work-flow-for-joining-table-to-layer-tp5157099p5157495.html Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user