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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'>gdal_translate does not have a PostGIS raster writer (or at least not last time I checked). So you can’t use it to load rasters into PostGIS, but can use it to output postgis raster to other formats. Need to use raster2pgsql for PostGIS raster loading.<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'>As far as ogr2ogr vs. shp2gpsql there probably isn’t much of a difference between shp2pgsql vs. ogr2ogr. Both use some variant of shapelib library. Though I think ogr2ogr may make a direct connection where as shp2pgsql just generates a script.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>That said you could achieve the same in ogr2ogr. So that’s more of a limitation of shp2pgsql than a benefit. <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><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><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>Micha Silver<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 14, 2020 6:03 AM<br><b>To:</b> PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org>; Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [postgis-users] gdal or shp2pgsql<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 14/02/2020 12:50, Jachym Cepicky wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I would like to ask, whether you are aware of any big performance<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>differences or any other serious reasons, why could shp2pgsql and<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>raster2pgsql be preferred over ogr2ogr and gdal_translate ?<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Encoding of attribute tables in shapefiles is often a problem, and shp2pgsql has the -W option to help to get it right. I don't know how I would duplicate that in ogr2ogr. Maybe with some -lco incantation?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks, Micha<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>From the users perspective, I can use both tools on similar manner and<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>have no problem with "complex" gdal data model and parameters options<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>and I would probably prefer the GDAL tools, since it allows me to<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>translate between various formats without specifically care, what they<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>are, while *2pgsql is always Postgres specific<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Maybe one missing feature of the PostGIS native tools: is there<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>elegant way (besides of subprocess module), how to use them in<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Python(3) environment?<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Thank you for clarification<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Jachym<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Micha Silver<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Ben Gurion Univ.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Sde Boker, Remote Sensing Lab<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>cell: +972-523-665918<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1128-1325">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1128-1325</a><o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>