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<div class="gmail_quote" >On 1 Jul 2020, at 07:19, Regina Obe <<a href="mailto:lr@pcorp.us" target="_blank">lr@pcorp.us</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><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></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><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></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hope that helps,</span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Regina</span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"></span></p><p> </p><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="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 3:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'PostGIS Users Discussion' <postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org><br><b>Subject:</b> [postgis-users] Postgis extension</span></p><p></p><p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Hi,</span></p><p></p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p> </p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><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></p><p></p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p> </p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks,</span></p><p></p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Imran Hussain</span></p><p></p><p></p></div></div></div><pre class="blue"><hr><br>postgis-users mailing list<br>postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users</a></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>