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List:       qgis-developer
Subject:    Re: [Qgis-developer] have aggregate/window expressions ever been discussed?
From:       Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-05-31 6:05:19
Message-ID: CAAi8Yg_+cV6nh9oLHqzzyvFLpXR1ZKG5en8sewTY_UkK3BX0CA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Olivier Dalang <olivier.dalang@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just a thought : if we are able to load shapefiles and other non-db
> formats through spatialite, is there a point in still being able to load
> them the old way ? Won't this just cause confusion, and force us to
> maintain an artificial and less powerful query language ?
>
> And what about database data providers, couldn't we load all of them
> through spatialite's virtual ogr, so to allow an unified and full featured
> spatial query language on ALL layers ? Wouldn't this also open the door for
> caching data of distant servers ?
>

;) This is what we are talking about.  Loading any QGIS layer using
SQLlite/Spatialite thought virtual tables.

- Nathan

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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 31, 2014 \
at 10:33 AM, Olivier Dalang <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:olivier.dalang@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">olivier.dalang@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Just a thought : if we are able to load shapefiles and \
other non-db formats through spatialite, is there a point in still being able to load \
them the old way ? Won&#39;t this just cause confusion, and force us to maintain an \
artificial and less powerful query language ?</div>



<div><br></div><div>And what about database data providers, couldn&#39;t we load all \
of them through spatialite&#39;s virtual ogr, so to allow an unified and full \
featured spatial query language on ALL layers ? Wouldn&#39;t this also open the door \
for caching data of distant servers ?</div>

</blockquote><div><br></div><div>;) This is what we are talking about.   Loading any \
QGIS layer using SQLlite/Spatialite thought virtual \
tables.</div><div><br></div><div>- Nathan</div></div><br></div></div>



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