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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Did you load/execute rtpostgis.sql in the database?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Also, I think this is not good practice to use your template database (template_postgis20) to store data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Pierre<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Virginia Maffei<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 02, 2011 8:22 PM<br><b>To:</b> PostGIS Users Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> [postgis-users] Gdal translate Error checking geometry type existence problem<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi, i loaded a tif with raster2pgsql into the database and now i'm trying to get from that table a tif with gdal_translate.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But this error appears:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>C:\Archivos de programa\GDAL>gdal_translate PG:"dbname=template_postgis20 user=postgres table=HumedadDeExtincion mode=2" your_file.tif<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR 1: Error checking geometry type existence. Is PostGIS correctly<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> installed?: no connection to the server<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>GDALOpen failed - 1<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Error checking geometry type existence. Is PostGIS correctly installed?: no connection to the server<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I installed in windows the postgis raster with gdal, python, etc.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Could you please help me with this problem?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Virginia<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>