Bug report #4792
Geometry type of geography columns can't be found
| Status: | Closed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | Data Provider/PostGIS | ||
| Affected QGIS version: | master | Regression?: | No |
| Operating System: | Easy fix?: | No | |
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | fixed |
| Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 14647 |
Description
Logging to a PostGIS-1.5 database and browsing tables there's a geography table for which qgis master can't figure the geometry type.
It's a geography with ZM dimensions and contains a POINT. The entry for it in geography_columns says 'Geometry'.
QGiS 1.7.3 is fine with it. I didn't test 1.8
Could depend on 'GEOMETRY' vs. 'Geometry', but it is just a guess, didn't look at the code.
History
#1
Updated by Sandro Santilli almost 13 years ago
The above description was with "Only look in geometry_columns" checked. Deselecting it Qgis gets out of the "Waiting.." indication and reports type "Select..." instead. No idea what that means, but you can't load it as a layer.
#2
Updated by Sandro Santilli almost 13 years ago
Note that 1.7.4 still works, even with "only look in geometry_columns table".
The behavior there is to show 'GEOMETRY' as the type and figure out it is a point when loading it.
#3
Updated by Jürgen Fischer almost 13 years ago
Sandro Santilli wrote:
The above description was with "Only look in geometry_columns" checked. Deselecting it Qgis gets out of the "Waiting.." indication and reports type "Select..." instead. No idea what that means, but you can't load it as a layer.
"Select..." means that there is no data in that column and you need to tell QGIS which geometry it should expect/allow when editing.
#4
Updated by Sandro Santilli almost 13 years ago
As of 6c9663c I get a "Waiting..." message (maybe it was always "Waiting..." rather than "Select...").
The tables contain a single entry. 1.7.4 is able to read them.
It happens with both the geometry and the geography column.
I'll try current master and let you know.
#5
Updated by Sandro Santilli almost 13 years ago
- Resolution set to invalid
Sorry for the confusing message above. Now I get the meaning of "Select..." (altough it is a bit confusing at first as you don't see any select list before moving over it).
Anyway, I've found the problem: my test database is broken:
strk=# select * from zmgeog; id | g ----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 | 01010000E0E6100000000000000000F03F000000000000004000000000000008400000000000001040 (1 row) strk=# select *, geometrytype(g), st_astext(g) from zmgeog; ERROR: function geometrytype(geography) does not exist at character 11*
Dunno what's the best way to report such error.
I also confirm 1.7.4 is unable to figure geometry type (just says WAITING there) but contrary to master 1.7.4 is able to open the table.
#6
Updated by Sandro Santilli almost 13 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Closed
See postgis ticket about the thing: https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/1450 (although I still think 1.7.4 was smarter about this)
#7
Updated by Sandro Santilli almost 13 years ago
- Status changed from Closed to Reopened
- Resolution deleted (
invalid)
Actually, didn't I provide a patch with all the ::geometry casts ?
Since 1.5 won't be affected by changes in 2.0 it would make sense to use the cast (but only for geography)
#8
Updated by Sandro Santilli almost 13 years ago
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from Reopened to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100