[postgis-users] importing shape files nightmare!

[strk at refractions.net]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 04:27:59PM +0200, christomec wrote:
> I'm sorry, my mistake. I thought I had the use flags set in a file
> somewhere, but that was not the case. I'll try emerging again. Could this
> be why I'm still experiencing the same problems?

GEOS and PROJ4 have nothing to do with loading shapefiles.
Why don't you get the sources instead of fighting with package
managers ? Belive me, that's where the meat is.

--strk;


> 
> > Well ....
> > I've just downloaded the lastest 1.0.4 version of postgis from
> > postgis.org and I see that the shp2pgsql.c as the same date
> > (2005/08/29 22:36:14) so the problem couldn't came from here I think.
> > Concerning the geos and proj support you must set proj and geos in
> > your USE flags, for more support information use emerge -pv postgis,
> > here you've see all the support (red are supports enabled and  blue
> > are those disabled). To simplify you must reemerge postgis with the
> > specified flags, for example you could simply use this command line :
> > USE="proj geos" emerge -v postgis
> > (or -pv to ensure that you'll effectively use geos and proj support).
> >
> > Hope that help.
> >
> >
> > Le 15 sept. 05 à 15:37, christomec a écrit :
> >
> >> I have now emerged postgis-1.0.4_p20050914.ebuild, but it seems
> >> that the
> >> original problems weren't solved. Trying to import a shape file still
> >> fails.
> >>
> >> trying:
> >>
> >> shp2pgsql -c /tmp/streets.shp streets | psql -d dbname
> >>
> >> ERROR:  unterminated quoted string at or near
> >> "'010500000001000000010200000005000000D670917BBAA6394034BDC458A6E940C0
> >> 2C9ACE4E06A73940A911FA997AE940C0BEF561BD51A7394"
> >> at character 292
> >> LINE 1: ...TRAND','0687-0890-000','0687-0890-000_6TH
> >> AVENUE','010500000...
> >>
> >> and trying:
> >>
> >> shp2pgsql -D /tmp/streets.shp streets dbname > /tmp/streets.sql
> >>
> >> Shapefile type: Arc
> >> Postgis type: MULTILINESTRING[2]
> >> Segmentation fault
> >>
> >> shp2pgsql
> >>
> >> RCSID: $Id: shp2pgsql.c,v 1.96 2005/08/29 22:36:25 strk Exp $
> >>
> >> select postgis_full_version();
> >>
> >> POSTGIS="1.1.0CVS" USE_STATS DBPROC="0.3.1" RELPROC="0.3.1"
> >>
> >> Where is geos and proj4?
> >>
> >> cat /etc/portage/package.keywords
> >> dev-db/postgis ~x86
> >> sci-libs/proj ~x86
> >> sci-libs/geos ~x86
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Attached is a patch to bring shp2pgsql.c from Revision 1.91
> >>> to Revision 1.96 (the one shipped with PostGIS 1.0.4).
> >>>
> >>> If you don't have the sources that's ... well ... sad :(
> >>> You can still download latest release sources (1.0.4),
> >>> run make in the loader/ directory and replace your dumper/loader
> >>> with the newly created ones.
> >>>
> >>> .. you can read by the end of the patch all changes
> >>> in shp2pgsql since 1.91 ...
> >>>
> >>> --strk;
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:28:25PM +0200, christomec wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I get:
> >>>>
> >>>> RCSID: $Id: shp2pgsql.c,v 1.91 2005/07/04 09:47:03 strk Exp $
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there a way of just fixing the shp2pgsql without having to
> >>>> re-emerging
> >>>> postgis?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:58:29AM +0200, strk at refractions.net
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:52:08AM +0200, christomec wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> So is POSTGIS="1.1.0CVS" is in actual fact 1.0.3?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Might be, the 1.1 and 1.0 are two different branches in CVS,
> >>>>>> and 1.1.0CVS is there since about 1.0.0 is out... there's no
> >>>>>> easy way to tell which version of the code 1.1.0CVS is.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Since this is a bug with pgsql2shp what you should look at
> >>>>>> is RCSID from it. It is shown running pgsql2shp w/out arguments.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Oops.. sorry, it's shp2pgsql (the loader), NOT pgsql2shp (the
> >>>>> dumper).
> >>>>> The RCSID is still shown when called w/out args
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --strk;
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