Rick, GRIB support is in the default GDAL build. You can confirm it's presence like this:
warmerdam@gdal:~$ gdalinfo --format grib Format Details: Short Name: GRIB Long Name: GRIdded Binary (.grb) Extension: grb Help Topic: frmt_grib.html Supports: Virtual IO - eg. /vsimem/ In any event, the warning/error messages make it clear the GRIB code is in play, but something about your file is not working with the existing GRIB code. BTW, I was able to translate your file to GeoTIFF successfully though I also see the message about not finding GRIB or TLDP. Best regards, Frank On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Rick Wayne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi y'all, > > I am struggling with getting some GRIB2 files, obtained from an upstream > provider, into PostGIS. The error messages I'm receiving (and they're > pretty much the same whether I invoke raster2pgsql, gdal_retile.py, or > gdalinfo on the file) certainly imply that the GDAL driver knows something > about GRIB: > > gdalinfo test.grib2 > Warning: Inside GRIB2Inventory, Message # 2 > ERROR: Couldn't find 'GRIB' or 'TDLP' > There were 4 trailing bytes in the file. > Driver: GRIB/GRIdded Binary (.grb) > > On the other hand, running "gdalinfo" and perusing its "the following > format drivers are configured and support output" lines, .grb/GRIB does not > appear. > > Currently I have gdal-bin 1.7.3-6ubuntu3 from universe/science > and libgdal1-1.7.0 from universe/libs installed. > > So either GRIB2 support is there and my file is somehow incompatible (if > you care to have a look, it's at > http://www.soils.wisc.edu/~wayne/test.grib2, and wgrib2 works just fine > with it), it's not there, or it's there but only for GDAL input, not output. > > If I need to upgrade, or replace my current packages with the UbuntuGIS > ones, I can certainly do that. But I'm reluctant to embark on that project > -- or, say, building everything from source -- unless I have a pretty clear > problem diagnosis, which I don't have the experience to puzzle out in a > reasonable amount of time. > > Thanks for your help. This was supposed to be so easy! Heh. > > Rick Wayne > Sr. Systems Programmer > UW Soil Science > > > _______________________________________________ > UbuntuGIS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu > http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki > > -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [email protected] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer
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