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FME Dynamic writer to geopackage with no geometry creates geom column in table

  • July 24, 2026
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arnovananrooij
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Hi,

I have a dynamic feuture writer which writes tables from my PostGreSQL/PostGIS database to a geopackage. Some of the source tables are with no geometry and some are with. This is why I have two readers, one for Posgresql and one for PostGIS. I write all the tables dynamicly to the geopackage with a FeatureWriter and have set the geometry type to read from schema definition. In the resulting geopackage I see the table which should not have a geometry with a geom attribute with all null values. The table gpkg_contents has a data_type features instead of attributes. When I try the same with a manual definition it works fine.

QGIS does not seem to have any problems with the geopackage that has the wrong definition, but ArcGIS Pro has. How can i get the dynamic writer to write correct to the geopackage? Or is this a bug or a works as designed? 

I run FME 2023, but also tried it with FME 2025.

Thank you all