So the result seems to be actually you can't import Shape files w/out
their indexes.
Thanks a lot
Andrea Maschio
Il giorno 29/gen/08, alle ore 00:27, P Kishor ha scritto:
On 1/28/08, Martin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually the SHP and DBF files are "linked" simply by the order of
the
records in the files. So the SHX file isn't needed to read the data.
It is only required if you want to read the data through the index.
You are absolutely correct on both counts. I realized my misleading
message after I had sent it as I have been happily reading DBF files
and modifying them using Perl directly and the parent Shapefile has
been ok. Thanks for pointing it out.
To the OP -- one of them (between SHP and DBF) is indexed starting at
0 and the other one starting at 1 (I always forget which one is
which).
Perhaps shp2pgsql does exactly that... read the attributes for each
shape via the index.
P Kishor wrote:
On 1/28/08, Andrea Maschio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello all, is it normal that trying to convert a shape into sql
with
shp2pgsql I have an error stating that i need the .shx index
file? Is there
an option for importing having only the .shp file?
Thanks
Andrea Maschio
The .shx file is the link between the geometry (.shp) and the
attributes (.dbf). These three are the minimum necessary
components of
an ESRI Shapefile. If your .shx/.dbf are missing then you have any
incomplete Shapefile.
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