Re: [Qgis-developer] Save as... taking too long and exporting the whole tabel

2016-11-15 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 16 novembre 2016 01:05:35 CET, Nyall Dawson ha scritto: >On 16 November 2016 at 01:00, Paolo Cavallini >wrote: >> Hi all, >> on 2.18, the extraction of a shp from a large (18 Mpoints) PostGIS >table >> takes ages, even when the user chooses to

Re: [Qgis-developer] Save as... taking too long and exporting the whole tabel

2016-11-15 Thread Nyall Dawson
On 16 November 2016 at 01:00, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Hi all, > on 2.18, the extraction of a shp from a large (18 Mpoints) PostGIS table > takes ages, even when the user chooses to save only a small portion of > it, selecting a small extent. This seems to be due to QGIS

Re: [Qgis-developer] Save as... taking too long and exporting the whole tabel

2016-11-15 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 15/11/2016 16:00, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto: > Hi all, > on 2.18, the extraction of a shp from a large (18 Mpoints) PostGIS table > takes ages, even when the user chooses to save only a small portion of > it, selecting a small extent. This seems to be due to QGIS saving only > the chosen

Re: [Qgis-developer] Save as... taking too long and exporting the whole tabel

2016-11-15 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 15/11/2016 16:15, Randal Hale ha scritto: > I'm using 2.18 on Ubuntu 16.04. I connect to a postgis database with 2.2 > million points covering the continental United States. I exported that > to a shapefile and it took about 2.5 minutes. Thanks for the check. My problem was that the dbf also

Re: [Qgis-developer] Save as... taking too long and exporting the whole tabel

2016-11-15 Thread Randal Hale
I'm using 2.18 on Ubuntu 16.04. I connect to a postgis database with 2.2 million points covering the continental United States. I exported that to a shapefile and it took about 2.5 minutes. Randy On 11/15/2016 10:00 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi all, on 2.18, the extraction of a shp from

[Qgis-developer] Save as... taking too long and exporting the whole tabel

2016-11-15 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi all, on 2.18, the extraction of a shp from a large (18 Mpoints) PostGIS table takes ages, even when the user chooses to save only a small portion of it, selecting a small extent. This seems to be due to QGIS saving only the chosen geoms, but the whole table. On 2.14 it seems to work fine. Could