Re: [postgis-users] Linux geocoder script ?

2011-04-14 Thread Don
I was running out of hard disk space on my root partition. I have, for now, the geocoder database on a separate partition and hard drive. I was debugging and capturing the output of every query and command. So it generated a huge file in the gigabyte range especially when each query was

Re: [postgis-users] (no subject)

2011-04-14 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 12/04/11 17:38, Paul Caroline Lewis wrote: Hi, Thank you Mark and Richard for your replies. Having looked at this it seems a Full Vacuum is the answer, however I'm not sure why. Processing the SQL scripts as originall reported I do get a large table from TestSet1 and a small table from

Re: [postgis-users] (no subject)

2011-04-14 Thread Richard Gomes
Hi Paul, I'm not expert on Postgres so, maybe I should remain in silence? Anyway, I know Oracle well and I know that the physical organization of your data may be highly relevant to performance. Maybe you could prepare all the data you need on a temporary table and in the end create another

[postgis-users] shp2pgsql - bad date formats

2011-04-14 Thread Jeff Dege
I'm trying to load a shapefile into a PostGIS database, using shp2pgsql and psql. It's failing because a couple of the sql insert statements have date fields containing '0'. ERROR: date/time field value out of range: 0 HINT: Perhaps you need a different datestyle setting. What I need is for

[postgis-users] Return point Lat, Long of ST_Distance(a.geog, b.geog)

2011-04-14 Thread Lopez, Anthony
All, I am wondering if it is possible to return the lat, long coordinates of the point that the ST_Distance(a.geog, b.geog) function basis its distance calculation on. Essentially, I'm after ST_ClosestPoint(), but using geography instead of geometry. thanks, Anthony Anthony Lopez | GIS

[postgis-users] Specify vertices in ST_Buffer(geog)?

2011-04-14 Thread Lopez, Anthony
All, Does anyone know if it's possible to specify the number of vertices in ST_Buffer(geog)? If not, is there a way around this? It seems pretty limiting to this geography function... thanks, Anthony Anthony Lopez | GIS Analyst Strategic Energy Analysis Center National Renewable Energy