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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Have you asked Alteryx about that. The psqlodbc driver has no knowledge of geometry_columns so I don’t think this is an ODBC issue. It would be something in there use in their queries causing the failure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Like for example if they are using GDAL (which underneath does use PSQLODBC) it looks for geometry_columns table, but you can turn this off with an environment variable.<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://gdal.org/drivers/vector/pg.html#vector-pg">https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/pg.html#vector-pg</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'>In GDAL </span><strong>LIST_ALL_TABLES=YES<o:p></o:p></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-weight:normal'>A lot of third-party tools do use GDAL for spatial support so could be that.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-weight:normal'>But I wouldn’t have a clue where you’d set that in their use if that were the case.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></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'><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:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><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>imran hussain<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 30, 2020 7:24 PM<br><b>To:</b> PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [postgis-users] Postgis extension<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:#212121'>I am trying to connect from Alteryx using psqlodbc driver. The geometry_columns table is not populated for the table I am trying to access, since it's got no spatial data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:#212121'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=3 width="98%" align=center></div><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> postgis-users <<a href="mailto:postgis-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">postgis-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>> on behalf of Simon Greener <<a href="mailto:simon@spatialdbadvisor.com">simon@spatialdbadvisor.com</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 30, 2020 4:46:40 PM<br><b>To:</b> PostGIS Users Discussion <<a href="mailto:postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org">postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [postgis-users] Postgis extension</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Is geometry_columns fully populated?<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Get <a href="http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=15860">BlueMail for Android</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 1 Jul 2020, at 07:19, Regina Obe <<a href="mailto:lr@pcorp.us" target="_blank">lr@pcorp.us</a>> wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Which system are you connecting from? Sounds like whatever system you are using is designed to work with spatial tables. Like as I recall I think ArcMap uses PostgreSQL ODBC driver.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>There isn’t any reason otherwise why you should be having issue connecting to a non-spatial table. I connect via SQL Server and MS Access all the time even when I have spatial tables in my database. There isn’t even any reason why a system would check geometry_columns unless it’s designed to work with spatial data.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Hope that helps,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Regina</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=xmsonormal><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 [<a href="mailto:postgis-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">mailto:postgis-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>imran hussain<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 30, 2020 3:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'PostGIS Users Discussion' <<a href="mailto:postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org">postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [postgis-users] Postgis extension</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>I am trying to access the Postgres DB using ODBC driver. I have Postgis extension installed on my DB and when trying to query the non-spatial tables from the tool, I keep getting the error "no records returned from GEOMETRY_COLUMNS for this table". Is there any environment variable that would let the ODBC know that its a non spatial table and avoid looking into GEOMETRY_COLUMNS view ?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Imran Hussain</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><pre style='text-align:center'><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></pre><pre><br>postgis-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org">postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote></div></div></div></div></body></html>