Hi Regina,
thanks for answering. You must be right. I´ve tried to export with Gvsig to
shapefile and cuts the varchar fields... I´ve tried to join with arcgis and
fields don´t be cutted but when i export joined data to a shapefile ( i need
this to use Arcgis Mapbook and use those fields as tags), then i´ve got cutted
fields... So it seems a shape/dbf problem... And i´ve got no option now! :(
Maybe making two fields from all original fields it´s the answer ( i´ve
got no text larger than 254*2). Any other suggestion will be welcomed...
Gus
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From: Obe, Regina
To: PostGIS Users Discussion
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:08 PM
Subject: RE: [postgis-users] pgsql2shp cuts varchar fields
Not absolutely sure, but I think its a limit in the spec. I think fields >
254 are considered to be memo fields in the dbf world and so would be put in a
.dbt.
Its been a while since I've done any DBase or Foxpro programming so my memory
could be wrong.
I've never actually seen .dbt files included with ESRI shape files, so I
assume ESRI discarded that side of the spec. If its allowed, then we probably
should implement it.
Hope that helps,
Regina
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Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:53 AM
To: PostGIS Users Discussion
Subject: [postgis-users] pgsql2shp cuts varchar fields
Hi all,
maybe this is an old issue... I´m trying to export to shapefile some
geometries, but in the result shapefile varchar fields greater than 255 are
cutted at this point. I´ve got alternatives but i´d like to know : is there any
method to export those fields directly with pgsql2shp or is it a
shapefile-format or pgsql2shp limit?
Thanks in advance,
Gus
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