<div dir="ltr">Many thanks, Regina! Indeed ST_Union generated the polygon, invisible in PgAdmin!! <br><br>It creates a nice layer when I open it in uDig. <br><br>However when I export it with pgsql2shp, the shape is unreadable by ArcView with the errmsg: Number of shapes does not match the number of table records.<br>
<br>Here's how I created the layer:<br><br>create table europe_contour();<br>SELECT addgeometrycolumn('db, 'europe_contour', 'the_geom', 32767,'MULTIPOLYGON', 2 );<br>insert into europe_contour(the_geom) values( (select st_union(the_geom) from europe));<br>
<br>Then I generate the shapefile: <br><br>"c:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin\pgsql2shp.exe" -u postgres -P password -f europe_contour db europe_contour<br><br>Any suggestions perhaps on anything I've wrong?<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Obe, Regina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robe.dnd@cityofboston.gov">robe.dnd@cityofboston.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Erik,</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">How were you using ST_Union and what exactly do you mean by
no result. no result as it looks blank? If you are using something
like PgAdmin III - it will look blank because it exceeds the buffer supported by
PgAdmin III.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">SELECT the_geom is null </font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">FROM (somequery or table) as foo</font></span></div>
<div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">LIMIT
1</font></span></div>
<div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">will
tell you if its actually returning no geometry</font></span></div>
<div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Hope
that helps,</font></span></div>
<div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Regina</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello everybody,<br><br>I've converted a shapefile of Europe to
PostGIS. I would like to merge all the countries together so that I only have
one polygon left, the whole contour of Europe. I have tried ST_Union that gives
me no result. I've tried several other functions to no avail. Does anybody know
how I should proceed?<br><br>Many thanks,<br><br>Erik<br></div></div></div></div>
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