[gdal-dev] Connect to PostGIS with Python

Tod Haren ke7fxl at gmail.com
Sun Apr 20 16:52:51 EDT 2008


Setting GDAL_DRIVER_PATH to the plugins directory did the trick.

Thanks a lot.

Tod

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Howard Butler <hobu.inc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  On Apr 20, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Tod Haren wrote:
>
> > I've installed gdalwin32-1.5 and the PostGIS plugin, but can't connect
> > to a remote PostGIS database using python.  I've tried installing the
> > python bindings with the windows installer from the Python CheeseShop
> > and through easy_install.  I can open shapefiles with OGR and rasters
> > with GDAL just fine.  The PostgreSQL driver isn't getting registered
> > for Python.  I've checked that gdalwin32-1.5\bin is in my PATH and
> > gdalwin32-1.5\data is in GDAL_DATA.  What else could be missing?
> > Using ogrinfo opens the PostGIS database just fine, so my guess is
> > that there is something I've missed in the install for python.  Any
> > ideas?  Is there some documentation that I'm missing?  Google, etc
> > hasn't been much help.
> >
> > Using a seperate install of FWTools 2.02 I can open the database with
> > Python using the same connection string.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tod
> >
>
>  Tod,
>
>  The PostGIS driver is not enabled by default and must be switched on
> manually by downloading the PostGIS plugin from
> http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/win32/1.5/gdalwin32pg150.zip and unzipping it
> and then setting GDAL_DRIVER_PATH to the directory where it exists.
>
>  The FAQ has a small note about this that might provide a little more
> detail.
>
>  HTH,
>
>  Howard
>


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