Why are you assuming the user who created the view is the one using QGIS? Jim
On 09/01/2015 08:50 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > I agree with Jürgen - better let the user choose the pkey column. If the > user knows how to create a Postgis View he also knows how to select a > primary key column. > > Andreas > > On 01.09.2015 14:37, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: >> Hi Sandro, >> >> On Tue, 01. Sep 2015 at 13:48:33 +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote: >>> 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. >> We intend to only backport fixes and not bugs. ;) >> >> You were always supposed to select the key column - preselecting the first >> column was the bug (also debatable). And #11317 is a ticket that >> demonstrates >> there were unaware users. >> >> That the first column often happens to be the primary key and and the >> combobox >> is not lexically sorted is somewhat pure luck - and unless you avoid having >> the >> key verified (using "use estimated metadata"), keeping a wrongly select >> column will make the layer to insert invalid. >> >> But I agree that the tooltip that you get on disabled lines (not only for the >> key selection, but also geometry type and srid) might not be visible enough >> (but that IMHO would be just a GUI enhancement). >> >> >> Jürgen >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
