Feature request #15740
Inform user of logically deleted records in shapefiles and allow removal
| Status: | Open | ||
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| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | Unknown | ||
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | |
| Easy fix?: | No | Copied to github as #: | 23662 |
Description
If a shapefile contains logically deleted records, the user is not informed about that.
The only thing a user can do to delete these records is to edit the shapefile or save it with as a new file (#15407).
Without knowing whether layers already contained in a QGIS projects or new layers have this issue, a user should always edit all the layers to be sure that they not contain logically deleted records.
One possible solution might be to inform the user, when opening a QGIS project or loading a new shapefile, about the presence of logically deleted records in the layers of the project, and provide a simple way to fix this. This could be a "save as" options for corrupted layers or an automatic editing (one record added and then deleted?).
I guess this automatic check could possibly slow down the start of a big project with a lot of layers. The activation of this check might be activated as default but maybe also unchecked in a setting parameter to avoid to slow down the opening of the project when a user is sure to have non-corrupted layers.
Test file can be found attached to this PostGIS ticket:
https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/3645
Related issues
History
#1
Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 7 years ago
- Easy fix? set to No
#2
Updated by Jürgen Fischer over 6 years ago
- Category set to Unknown