Bug report #12039

Wrong tip text in dialog -Create a new PostGIS connection-

Added by Albert van de Maat about 9 years ago. Updated about 9 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Low
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Affected QGIS version:2.6.1 Regression?:No
Operating System:Windows Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:fixed/implemented
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:20242

Description

In the dialog 'Create a new PostGIS connection' there is a wrong tip text on the Don't resolve type of unrestricted columns (GEOMETRY) checkbox.
It shows a copy of the Only show layers in the layer registries checkbox.

History

#1 Updated by Richard Duivenvoorde about 9 years ago

in future it is helpfull if you provide the QGIS version that you find this issue.

as I see it now, this was 2.6 :-)
as there you see this, in current master (the dev version) there is NO tooltip on the Dont't.... line

not sure if we should close this one, or we should provide a better tooltip for the checkbox.

On second thought: for me it would be helpfull if the tooltip would tell me what Unrestriced columns (Geometry) means :-)
(it is not mentioned in the context help text, but... hopefully we will have this online in a later version)

#2 Updated by Jürgen Fischer about 9 years ago

Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:

On second thought: for me it would be helpfull if the tooltip would tell me what Unrestriced columns (Geometry) means :-)
(it is not mentioned in the context help text, but... hopefully we will have this online in a later version)

It means geometry type columns that don't have a geometry type constraint - ie. can not only contain (multi)points, (multi)lines xor (multi)polygons, but any mix thereof.

#3 Updated by Richard Duivenvoorde about 9 years ago

What about making the (default OFF) checkbox caption:

[ ] Resolve type of unconstrained mixed GEOMETRY columns (slower)

with tooltip "QGIS can try to find GEOMETRY types in the data and show them"

#4 Updated by Jürgen Fischer about 9 years ago

  • Resolution set to fixed/implemented
  • Status changed from Open to Closed

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