+1. I think this is necessary for effective use of WFS-T by organisations who use primary keys with business meaning. Database design best-practice is to avoid having primary keys with business meaning, but as Andrea has noted, this practice is sufficiently widespread to be supported by the WFS standard. We should support it.
On 29/05/10 18:44, Andrea Aime wrote: > Hi, > following last week discussion I cooked up a formal proposal to allow > GeoTools 2.6.x and trunk to use existing fids during feature insertion. > You can find it here: > > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Allow+inserts+to+use+existing+feature+ID > > The proposal is open for voting > > Cheers > Andrea > -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> Software Engineering Team Leader CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
