Hi John,
Thanks for the patch, I will give it a test this weekend! I think it would
be a decent option on the command line if it works out well.
Jason
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Jon Burgess <jburgess...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> > > I'm working with osm2pgsql (latest trunk version) to import OSM into
> > a
> > > PostgreSQL/PostGIS database. The issue I'm having is that if I use
> > > the --slim option I'll occasionally get an error similar to:
> > >
> > > Going over pending relations
> > > COPY_END for COPY osm_rels FROM STDIN;
> > > failed: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint
> > > "osm_rels_pkey"
> > > CONTEXT: COPY osm_rels, line 1207: "284132 0 323
> > >
> >
> {42198453,20559277,20559273,20558263,20494565,40702583,19846737,19826462,20582455,20585..."
> > >
> > > If I don't use slim mode, it seems to always work. Right now I'm
> > just
> > > testing with state snapshots from http://downloads.cloudmade.com/,
> > but
> > > I'd like to be able to import the whole OSM planet database and I'd
> > > really like to be able to use slim mode so I can do incremental
> > > updates and reduce the memory requirements for importing.
> >
> > If I remember correctly this error occurs when you try to import two
> > data sets which contain some overlapping data. In your case it appears
> > that relation ID 284132 appears in both the data extracts. Only the
> > slim
> > mode keeps a copy of this node/way/relation data and triggers this
> > error.
>
> You could try the attached patch to osm2pgsql. This makes it treat all
> new data as a modify operation which should avoid problems caused by
> duplicate data. Unfortunately this makes the data import process
> significantly slower so I won't be applying this change to the trunk
> code.
>
> I will think about adding this as a new command line option and try to
> figure out if there is something that can be done to reduce the
> performance penalty.
>
> Jon
>
>
>
>
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