Changes in table attribute causes "Invalid Field Index" error when trying to save

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Author Name: Alexandre Neto (@SrNetoChan)
Original Redmine Issue: 6735
Affected QGIS version: 1.8.0

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I'm using, QGIS 1.8 6416f38, in a Windows Vista 32bit Machine. Changes in table attribute causes "Invalid Field Index" error when trying to save.

The error occurs doing the following steps:

• Open editing;
• Create new field; # Ups... not the field type I wanted
• DO NOT SAVE;
• Erase the same field;
• Save edition.

QGIS is enable to save the changes trowing the following error:

Could not commit changes to layer teste2


  Errors: ERROR: 1 attribute(s) not deleted.
  SUCCESS: 1 attribute(s) added.
  SUCCESS: 1 attribute value(s) changed.
  
  Provider errors:
  OGR error deleting field 1: Invalid field index

The error only occurs when deleting a recent created fields.

After that, the shapefile index seems to be messed up and data edited in new fields may keep throwing errors, or even be lost.

I haven't tried in a Linux machine.

WORKAROUND: Always save editing immediately after creating a new field.

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Author Name: Alexandre Neto (@SrNetoChan)

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I have tried in Xubuntu (OSGEO Live 6) and the same issue occurs.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Alexandre Neto wrote:

I have tried in Xubuntu (OSGEO Live 6) and the same issue occurs.

Hi Alexandre, does this happen also on master or 1.7.4 (looking for a possible fix/regression)?

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Author Name: Andre Joost (Andre Joost)

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Giovanni Manghi wrote:

Hi Alexandre, does this happen also on master or 1.7.4 (looking for a possible fix/regression)?

I'm not Alexandre, but can confirm the bug for master on Windows XP.
The table manager plugin does the operation without throwing errors.

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Author Name: Alexandre Neto (@SrNetoChan)

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I had the chance to try in a 1.7.0 Installation. The problem was not replicable, as in 1.7 was not possible to delete attributes in the attribute table window.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• priority_id was changed from Normal to High

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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seems fixed on master, reopen if necessary.

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• resolution was changed from to fixed
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed