[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #2591: shp2pgsql field length problem

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#2591: shp2pgsql field length problem
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  Reporter:  agnar       |       Owner:  pramsey      
      Type:  defect      |      Status:  closed       
  Priority:  medium      |   Milestone:  PostGIS 1.5.9
 Component:  postgis     |     Version:  1.5.X        
Resolution:  worksforme  |    Keywords:               
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Changes (by pramsey):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => worksforme


Comment:

 I'm going to guess UTF-8 data, so that the high-bit characters take
 2bytes, so sometimes a 20-long string ends up as 21. Without pre-scanning
 the whole file, it's not really fixable. I'd like to see a test file.

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