I agree with Luca this should have been better not backported to 2.8.3. Only proper bugs should be backported, and this was a (debatable) GUI enhancement, as far as I can tell.
BTW: resolution of #11317 is set to "wontfix" --strk; On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 09:00:15PM +0200, Luca Lanteri wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that this new behavior has been backported to 2.8.3. > I think this behavior should be considered a regression because now it's > very uncomfortable to load views, specially when I have to load many views. > I also noticed that lot of users are confused, because they thinks that > views doesn't work. I think the old behavior was better because it allowed > both to choose a custom gid and to load view faster. > Currently we decide to remain with 2.8.2. > > What about reconsidering to return to the old behavior ? > > Thanks > Luca > > 2015-08-06 20:58 GMT+02:00 Jürgen E. <[email protected]>: > > > Hi Randal, > > > > On Thu, 06. Aug 2015 at 13:53:08 -0400, Randal Hale wrote: > > > In 2.8.x I can add the view and the Primary key is automatically > > displayed. > > > > No, you're supposed to select the primary key. In 2.8.x you also have to > > choose from all columns, but first one is preselected. If that happens to > > be > > the primary key, you're fine, but that's not always the case and hence > > newer versions force you to actually select it. > > > > Jürgen > > > > -- > > Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. > > +49-4931-918175-31 > > Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. > > +49-4931-918175-50 > > Software Engineer D-26506 Norden > > http://www.norbit.de > > QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qgis-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
