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<P><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dear List,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">trying to connect to PostGIS 8.2 from AutoCAD Map 3d 2010</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">with connectionstring</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">PG:"dbname=databasename host=</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">localhost</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> port=5432 user=x password=y"</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">following error message is launched</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">OSGeo.FDO.Common.Execption: Connect failed:</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> bei OSGeo.FDO.Connections.IConnectionImp.Open()</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> bei Autodesk.Gis.Map.DataConnect.Plugins.GenericProviderConnectionPlugin.buttonLogin_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">in the readme of the FDO OGR-driver 3.4.0 there is following comment:</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">So far the OGR provider has been (successfully) tested with:</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> * SHP files</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> * MapInfo files (.TAB)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> * Oracle Spatial</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> * ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> * PostGIS (on PostgreSQL 8.1.4)</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">the commandlinetools ogr2ogr or ogrinfo work with this connection syntax</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de-at"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Karl</FONT> </SPAN>
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