Thanks Andrea !

Using ogr2ogr does work properly.



2010/10/23 Andrea Peri 2007 <[email protected]>

> Hi fellows,
>>
>> I am loading a postgis Layer and then saving it to shapefile. Job gets
>> done.
>> BUT, data type character varying, or character, is always set to 255 CHAR
>> in
>> the shapefile.
>> Therefore, my dbf ends up being a huge table. Is this some bug or I am
>> simply doing something wrong ?
>>
>> Any thoughts appreciated
>>
>>
>> Ricardo
>>
>
> The exporting procedure (save as) of qgis do this.
>
> But if you use og2ogr (from gdal) to export from postgres to shapefile the
> string field was exactly the needed.
> I test with the trunk version of gdal.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrea Peri
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Qgis-user mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
>
_______________________________________________
Qgis-user mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Reply via email to