On mardi 16 mai 2017 09:21:06 CEST Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > I'm just trying to load the census roads data. I think what happened is > that when the table was created using -nlt PROMOTE_TO_MULTI it was > created as polygon geometry. then the subsequent insert failed. I change > the script to -nlt MULTILINESTRING and it loaded all the data. I found a > post from Even circa 2012 IIRC that indicated PROMOTE_TO_MULTI should > work for both polygons and linestrings.
It does, but it promotes the layer geometry type *source* to the corresponding multi geometry type. It doesn't take into account the target layer geometry type. We should perhaps have a a-nlt DST_GEOMETRY_TYPE for that. Even -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com
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