On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Justin Deoliveira <[email protected]>wrote:
> Ok cool. And yeah unfortunately we don't (yet) have the ability to modify
> underlying database schemas through our internal geotools api. But we should
> soon [1]. At which point we can drop the table first in overwrite mode in
> order to recreate it with the new schema from the file being uploaded.
>
Although thinking about it that would probably make it a bit too easy to
shoot ones self in the foot. I think adding the parameter "purge=true" would
probably be prudent.
>
> [1] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-2333
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Matt Bertrand
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Sorry, it was due to a typo on my part. As long as I include
>> "update=overwrite" it works correctly.
>>
>> It seems as though the original PostGIS table structure can't be changed
>> though? If I add or remove attribute fields from the shapefile, those
>> changes are not reflected in the PostGIS data structure when I re-upload it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/15/11 2:40 PM, Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>>
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> I am not able to reproduce this one.. I just tried a few tests and
>> update=overwrite behaves as it should. What client are you using? Just curl?
>>
>> -Justin
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Matt Bertrand <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> If I upload a shapefile using a REST URL to replace an existing layer
>>> stored in PostGIS, the shapefile features are appended to the PostGIS table,
>>> rather than replacing the current features. Adding "update=overwrite" does
>>> not seem to change this behavior:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://localhost:8080/geoserver-geonode-dev/rest/workspaces/wmap/datastores/Copy1/file.shp?update=overwrite
>>>
>>>
>>>
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