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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Nothing, the sql file looks beautiful. No errors. The interesting thing to me is that it repeats the error when I pipe it and the error repeats for as many time as there are rows of data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>What could this mean? Might there be something wrong with my schema? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Shp2psql is supposed to create the table which it does:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>SET CLIENT_ENCODING TO UTF8;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>SET STANDARD_CONFORMING_STRINGS TO ON;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BEGIN;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>CREATE TABLE "columbus"."pole_region" (gid serial PRIMARY KEY,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"location_n" varchar(15),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"height" float8,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"class" varchar(11),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"ownership" varchar(7),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"owner" varchar(80),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"plant_acct" varchar(31),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"vintage_ye" float8,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"inservice_" varchar(12),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"pole_kind" varchar(31),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"pole_type" varchar(24),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"original_t" varchar(25),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"design_sta" varchar(18),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"facility_s" varchar(10),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"ciac_statu" varchar(8),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"ciac_date" varchar(12),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"west_pole_" varchar(6));<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>SELECT AddGeometryColumn('columbus','pole_region','geom_3754','3754','MULTIPOLYGON',4);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Denis Rouzaud [mailto:denis.rouzaud@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:52 AM<br><b>To:</b> PostGIS Users Discussion<br><b>Cc:</b> Paul Maddock<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [postgis-users] Using shp2pgsql<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You could output shp2pgsql to a SQL file, then use it in psql to see at which line the error occurs.<br><br><br><br>On 04/25/2012 04:46 PM, Paul Maddock wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m using the following code to transform a shapefile I have into a table and import it into my database:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>shp2pgsql -s 3754 ~/JOE/columbus/pole_region.shp columbus.pole_region | psql -h localhost -U postgres -p 5432 -d paul<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When it runs I have to put my password in for postgres (expected), and I get the following output:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The database paul is created and the schema columbus is created and is owned by postgres. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What am I doing wrong? Do I have to set datatypes?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for the help,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paul<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Paul A. 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