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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">After following the instructions (several times) and apparently successfully installing tiger geocoder and the tiger data for Idaho, I keep getting an error when the geocoder
can’t find an address.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">With a locatable address it works just fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">SELECT * FROM geocode('3300 state st, boise, id 83703')<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When an address is not locatable, I assume it should return null (and move on to the next in the batch).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Instead, it returns an error:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">SELECT * FROM geocode(‘3300 state st, neverland, id 9876543210’)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">ERROR: column co.statefp does not exist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">LINE 2: ...cefp = p.placefp) LEFT JOIN county co ON ('16' = co.statefp...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">QUERY: SELECT DISTINCT ON (sub.predirabrv,sub.fename,COALESCE(sub.suftypabrv, sub.pretypabrv) ,sub.sufdirabrv,coalesce(p.name,zip.city,cs.name,co.name),s.stusps,sub.zip) sub.predirabrv
as fedirp, sub.fename, COALESCE(sub.suftypabrv, sub.pretypabrv) as fetype, sub.sufdirabrv as fedirs, coalesce(p.name,zip.city,cs.name,co.name)::varchar as place, s.stusps as state, sub.zip as zip, interpolate_from_address($1, sub.fromhn,
…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It doesn’t seem to matter which address element causes the problem, the error is the same and it kills the query. Is there some error handling that is getting missed? The
examples I’ve seen look like it just returns null. Thank you for any help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">mst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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