Re: [QGIS-Developer] Merge tool always creating a new feature id instead of preserving the existing one

2022-03-01 Thread Alexandre Neto
I would consider that a bug then, but I can't remember if I ever used merge tool on PostGIS tables directly. I believe NaturalGIS has some processing tools that work in PostGIS backend, but can't remember if merge is available. Alexandre A terça, 1/03/2022, 09:24, Andreas Neumann escreveu: >

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Merge tool always creating a new feature id instead of preserving the existing one

2022-03-01 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Alex, Thank you for your reply. In my case, the data resides in Postgis, not in Geopackage. But if I understand you correctly, then Geopackage imposes it's limit on QGIS in general, aka other providers as well - right? Thanks, Andreas On 2022-03-01 10:16, Alexandre Neto wrote: I

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Merge tool always creating a new feature id instead of preserving the existing one

2022-03-01 Thread Alexandre Neto
I believe that comes from the geopackage fid limitations. For that reason, I never use the fid field as an actual id. That's my workaround. Alexandre Neto A terça, 1/03/2022, 08:44, Andreas Neumann escreveu: > Hi, > > We have a problem with the merge tool. > > We have a relatively complex data

[QGIS-Developer] Merge tool always creating a new feature id instead of preserving the existing one

2022-03-01 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi, We have a problem with the merge tool. We have a relatively complex data model with lots of relations. We want to use the merge tool with this data. The merge tool allows to carefully choose which attributes should end up in the merged feature. This works fine, except for the feature