Hi there, I just commited a larger change to the postgres provider. Mostly it's refactoring, but it also contains some features.
You should now be able to use primary keys that are not numeric and even primary keys with more that one column should work (not sure how well the latter performs). The handling of the GEOMETRY type was also changed - the geometry type is now specified in the layer uri and therefore the automatically generated subset string is not necessary anymore. For empty tables you can select with geometry type to use. Views still need numeric primary keys and those need to be selected when adding. Please test and report. Author: Juergen E. Fischer <j...@norbit.de> Date: Thu Dec 29 00:02:47 2011 +0100 [FEATURE][API] postgres provider refactoring: - use m prefix for member variables and s prefix for class variables - refactor QgsPostgresProvider::Conn and QgsPostgresConnection to QgsPostgresConn - put QgsColumnTypeThread into separate file - use QgsPostgresConn in QgsPgSourceSelect - cleaner abort of column type thread (e.g. remove unfinished columns from selection list) - [API] move QgsDbTableModel as QgsPgTableModel to provider - [FEATURE] support for arbitrary key (including non-numeric and multi column) - [FEATURE][API] support for requesting a certain geometry type and/or srid in QgsDataSourceURI * no more explicit filter strings * support for empty tables without gemetry_columns entry or GEOMETRY type. Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-20 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer