Bug report #7555

Postgis Multipolygon Errors

Added by Denis Rouzaud over 12 years ago. Updated over 12 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Severe/Regression
Assignee:-
Category:Vectors
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 #:16497

Description

When dealing with multipolygon layers, several problems arise, some causing data loss (Postgres provider drops rows before inserting new rows, and all was lost if a constraint error was raised):

  • Creating a single polygon as a new feature is impossible:
    PostGIS error while adding features: ERROR: Geometry type (Polygon) does not match column type (MultiPolygon)
  • No way of splitting a part into several parts (you can split in several features but not in several parts) [maybe not a blocker]
  • Severe known bugs when using merge or clip tools that create POLYGON and not MULTIPOLYGON.

Related issues

Duplicates QGIS Application - Bug report #5109: ERROR: Geometry type Poly not match MultiPoly Closed 2012-03-02

History

#1 Updated by Regis Haubourg over 12 years ago

Sea also Postgis Multipolygon :: cannot create a feature

A solution would be to let QGIS write in multi geometry type when datasource is detected as multi (line, polygon, point...).

#2 Updated by Jürgen Fischer over 12 years ago

regis Haubourg wrote:

Sea also Postgis Multipolygon :: cannot create a feature

A solution would be to let QGIS write in multi geometry type when datasource is detected as multi (line, polygon, point...).

What the dataProvider's geometryType()? If it is a multitype it should already be processed through st_multi().

#3 Updated by Jürgen Fischer over 12 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback

Please eloborate. The problem apparently doesn't appear digitizing (single)polygons on a layer like that:

CREATE TABLE foo(id SERIAL)
SELECT AddGeometryColumn('foo','geom',25832,'MULTIPOLYGON',2);

I verified following operations (committing after each editing into postgis):
  • adding the layer (gets detected as 'Multipolygon', ie. type=MULTIPOLYGON in the data source uri)
  • Digiziting a (single) polygon
  • Cutting the polygon into three polygons
  • Merging two unconnected polygons to a multipolygon with two parts.
  • Removing a part from the multipolygon

Works fine here.

#4 Updated by Denis Rouzaud over 12 years ago

You are right.

Apparently, the problem I encountered is related to some persistence in the QGIS project. If you recreate (from scratch by sql) a layer changing its geometry from polygon to multipolygon, it stays as polygon in QGIS.

#5 Updated by Jürgen Fischer over 12 years ago

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

Denis Rouzaud wrote:

Apparently, the problem I encountered is related to some persistence in the QGIS project. If you recreate (from scratch by sql) a layer changing its geometry from polygon to multipolygon, it stays as polygon in QGIS.

Ok, if you change the table definition you should better re-add the layer - or unexpected things like this might happen.

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