Bug report #5052

When adding PostGIS table, QGIS hangs because of expensive queries on views

Added by Aren Cambre about 12 years ago. Updated about 12 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Normal
Assignee:-
Category:GUI
Affected QGIS version:master Regression?:No
Operating System: Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:worksforme
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:14822

Description

If you click Add a PostGIS Layer and connect to a database with large views, QGIS will hang for a long time, even though the Add PostGIS Table(s) dialog still appears responsive, because QGIS is doing expensive queries on the database.

I don't think expensive queries should be run on views by default. The default behavior should require some kind of consent, either a global setting to QGIS or me selecting the view in the dialog, before expensive queries are run.

I have views with several hundreds of thousands of rows.

History

#1 Updated by Jürgen Fischer about 12 years ago

  • Resolution set to worksforme
  • Status changed from Open to Closed

enable "Use estimated metadata" in your postgresql connection.

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