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 >
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