Thank you, Paul. The encoding does make it work better. However, only half the data transferred. (raw data with 518 rows, new with 269 rows ). Without -W LATIN1 option, only 11 rows got transferred. Any other options?
Thanks a lot. John Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Re: Problem loading shape data (Paul Ramsey) To: "PostGIS Users Discussion" <postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net> Message-ID: <30fe546d0812151227p48de9c10qfdce3694145c3...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Try adding -W LATIN1 to your shp2pgsql invocation. You have some (garbage?) hibit characters in your file. P On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:14 PM, John Zhang <johnzhan...@gmail.com> wrote: > oops............here are the attachments > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:58 AM, John Zhang <johnzhan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Paul, >> >> Thank you very much for the input and the hint on how to get the whole >> error message. >> Attached are the error message file and the generated script file for your >> reference. >> >> The commands used are: >> >> shp2pgsql -s 3005 "..\AbaloneClosures.shp" hm_vect.AbaloneClosures2 > >> D:\tmp\AbaloneClosures2.sql >> psql -h flash.HaidaMapping.local -d hm -U postgres -f >> D:\tmp\AbaloneClosures2.sql >> >> Based on the error message, the table "hm_vect"."abaloneclosures2" seemed >> created. However, it is not. >> >> Your input on the problem would be much appreciated! >> >> Thanks >> John >> >>> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:36:00 -0800 >>> From: "Paul Ramsey" <pram...@cleverelephant.ca> >>> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Problem loading shape data >>> To: "PostGIS Users Discussion" <postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net> >>> Message-ID: >>> <30fe546d0812131636v212853d8wa3422f29f4e14...@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >>> >>> You have to scroll up in the window until you can see what the >>> *actual* error is... increase your command terminal scroll buffers to >>> 5000 then re-run and scroll up to the first error message. >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:17 PM, John Zhang <johnzhan...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > Hi there, >>> > >>> > I used shp2pgsql command to convert shape data to postgis. I met a >>> > problem >>> > when I tried to run the generated sql data file. >>> > >>> > The command is as follows: >>> > >>> > shp2pgsql -s 3005 "..\AbaloneClosures.shp" hm_vect.AbaloneClosures > >>> > D:\tmp\AbaloneClosures.sql | psql -h flash.HaidaMapping.local -d hm -U >>> > postgres -f D:\tmp\AbaloneClosures.sql >>> > >>> > the message tells: "..current transaction is aborted..". However, when >>> > I >>> > copied the command to a query window to run, it was successful. It is a >>> > polygon feature class with less than 1000 rows. >>> > >>> > When I ran >>> > psql -h flash.HaidaMapping.local -d hm -U postgres -f >>> > D:\tmp\AbaloneClosures.sql >>> > the same problem occurred. >>> > >>> > Any input would be appreciated. >>> > >>> > Thanks a lot >>> > John
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