Hi Etienne, I also noticed it, but it seems difficult to find a pattern.
When I had the problem it didn't matter if it was PostGIS or shapefiles. cheers -- Giovanni -- On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 13:08 -0200, Etienne Tourigny wrote: > Hi All, > > I am having consistent problems with the Identify Features when using > a large a vector layer. Using a large shapefile dataset, if I click > on a feature that has a large span and many intersections (for example > a single feature that spans many rivers in the Amazon), the UI is > unresponsive (but the QGis process is working intensively) and I have > to kill QGis after many minutes of waiting. I have also noticed this > in other large shapefile datasets. > > Is there a way to stop the query/lookup in a graceful manner, like you > would using the "Stop Map rendering" button? > > Do other users have this problem? Would I get better performance > using a spatial index or importing the data into PostGIS? > > thanks, > Etienne > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
