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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'>Ben,<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'>Have you tried using ogr_fdw. Might have better luck with that since it's designed with spatial in mind.<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'><a href="https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-ogr-fdw">https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-ogr-fdw</a><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'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>That said I don't have any data in SQL Server with spatial in it so have only been using it for non-spatial SQL Server (and even then mostly with PostgreSQL on windows) and shapefiles, spreadsheets etc.<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'>Hope that helps,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Regina<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><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> postgis-users [mailto:postgis-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brent Wood<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 14, 2016 9:15 PM<br><b>To:</b> PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org>; ben@ausvet.com.au<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [postgis-users] Problem extracting SQL Server Geometry (or, what is the 0x character?)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30120"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30348"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Hey Ben...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30347"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30349"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Long time!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30257"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30455"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>In the absence of a more elegant approach...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30449"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30255"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>You could try the FDW query going via WKT rather than WKB - so deconstruct then reconstruct?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30286"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30350"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Minor overhead for a one-off transfer, perhaps more of an issue for a working query.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30351"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30352"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>I use both fdw & OGR virtual data source to access data from Specify (MySQL) in QGIS. Both work fine. Different sorts of issues with each. So fdw is not just used for data transfers :-)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30439"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30473"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> Brent<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30126"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30125"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30124"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30123"><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> Ben Madin <<a href="mailto:ben@ausvet.com.au">ben@ausvet.com.au</a>><br><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30254">To:</b> PostGIS Users Discussion <<a href="mailto:postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org">postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 15, 2016 1:03 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> [postgis-users] Problem extracting SQL Server Geometry (or, what is the 0x character?)</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30475"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id=yiv0962819995><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30476"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>G'day all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30477"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476477964343_30478"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>I hope a simple case of something I've missed, but we are trying to extract data from a SQL Server database into PostGIS use tds_fdw... the data in SQL Server appears to be in WKB - but when when connect to this field we have a precursor 0x. I can't find any references to anyone else suffering this problem, but that could be because I'm trying a lazy approach to automate retrieval of hundreds of tables using the FDW (that's what it is for, right?)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>I'm left with a sense that it is an encoding error between the two systems? I've tried making the fdw column text instead of geometry, but I can't get rid of the 0x, and no amount of trying to cajole the text to any other form makes it any happier. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>To complicate it, for testing I'm going from SQL Server 2014 (running in Windows 8.1 in a VM) to PostgreSQL 9.4 on a Mac (El Capitan) using tds_fdw compiled on the same mac. POSTGIS="2.2.2 r14797" GEOS="3.5.0-CAPI-1.9.0 r0" PROJ="Rel. 4.9.2, 08 September 2015" GDAL="GDAL 2.1.1, released 2016/07/07" LIBXML="2.7.8" LIBJSON="0.12.1" RASTER<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Any ideas gratefully received? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Ben<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>m : +61 448 887 220<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>e : <a href="mailto:ben@ausvet.com.au" target="_blank">ben@ausvet.com.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>10 High Street, Fremantle<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Western Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>on the web: <a href="http://www.ausvet.com.au/" target="_blank">www.ausvet.com.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>This transmission is for the intended for a mailing list and is clearly never going to be confidential information. 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