<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Yep. That got rid of the crash. Thank you.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Can you explain what occurs when the -W flag is specified? What do you get if you omit it? Does it affect how you might load it into the DB?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I had a peek in section 4.3.2 of the docs and I don't see the option documented. Sorry if it's a silly question... character sets, encoding, and display seem like voodoo to me.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--</DIV><DIV>Amos</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 30-Sep-05, at 4:47 AM, <A href="mailto:strk@refractions.net">strk@refractions.net</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Index: shp2pgsql.c</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">===================================================================</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">RCS file: /home/cvs/postgis/postgis/loader/shp2pgsql.c,v</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">retrieving revision 1.88.2.7</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">diff -U2 -r1.88.2.7 shp2pgsql.c</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--- shp2pgsql.c 29 Aug 2005 22:36:14 -0000<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>1.88.2.7</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">+++ shp2pgsql.c 30 Sep 2005 08:45:42 -0000</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">@@ -188,5 +188,5 @@</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>#ifdef USE_ICONV</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">- <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>free(str);</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">+ <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>if ( encoding ) free(str);</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>#endif</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">@@ -241,5 +241,5 @@</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>#ifdef USE_ICONV</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">- <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>free(str);</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">+ <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>if ( encoding ) free(str);</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>#endif</FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>