<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Venkat,<br><br>Are you using a filter ? I can see in the SQL statement this: WHERE (Africa). So I guess<br>you have FILTER "Africa" instead FILTER " continent = 'Africa' ". Try this and let me know<br>what happened.<br><br>Greetings from México<br><br><div><strong><font color="#0000bf">IC Carlos Ruiz</font></strong></div><div><strong><font color="#0000bf"></font></strong> <br></div><br>--- On <b>Thu, 8/7/08, Venkat Rao Tammineni <i><vtammineni@roulacglobal.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Venkat Rao Tammineni <vtammineni@roulacglobal.com><br>Subject: [mapserver-users] Reg: QueryMap(Zoom To Shape) with Mapserver PostgreSql/PostGIS<br>To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org, mapserver-users-owner@lists.osgeo.org, mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org,
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am getting error with query map.But it is working fine for
Shape files.Only I am getting error with Postgresql/PostGIS.I do not know
where I am doing wrong.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is my Map File Code :- </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Name "Continents"</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> CONNECTION "host=192.168.1.158 dbname=GIS
password=administrator user=postgres port=5432"</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <u>DATA "the_geom from
rgp_gis_continent"</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And I have also used like </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <u>DATA "the_geom from
rgp_gis_continent using unique gid and SRID=-1"</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But this also getting the same error.I am using
Mapserver 5.0 and Postgresql8.1.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please let me know where I am doing wrong.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Below is my error </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">prepare_database(): Query error. Error executing POSTGIS
DECLARE (the actual query) statement: 'DECLARE mycursor BINARY CURSOR FOR
SELECT "continent"::text,asbinary(force_collection(force_2d(the_geom)),'NDR'),gid::text
from rgp_gis_continent WHERE (Africa) and (the_geom && setSRID(
'BOX3D(-180 -112.415519399249,180
112.415519399249)'::BOX3D,find_srid('','rgp_gis_continent','the_geom') ))' </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Postgresql reports the error as 'ERROR: column
"africa" does not exist</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">More Help:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Error with POSTGIS data variable. You specified 'check your
.map file'.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Standard ways of specifiying are : </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(1) 'geometry_column from geometry_table' </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(2) 'geometry_column from (sub query) as foo using unique column
name using SRID=srid#' </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Make sure you put in the 'using unique column name'
and 'using SRID=#' clauses in.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For more help, please see <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/">http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/</a>
</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mappostgis.c - version of Jan 23/2004.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am waiting for your great response.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Thanks and Regards</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Venkat.</p>
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