[OSGeo Africa] Loading a Raster to PostGIS

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Chris Smit <gis at geostratics.co.za> wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> I am having difficulties with loading a DEM file to PostGIS via the
> raster2pgsql tool. Could someone shed some light on how to do this?
> Some additional information, I have used the following syntax to add the
> DEM to PostGIS:
>
>
> raster2pgsql -s 2048 -f rast -I -C -Y C:\Users\GIS\Desktop\Project\DEM.tif > DEM.sql
> psql -h localhost -U postgres -d Topography -f DEM.sql
>
>
> After running the above syntax in the command line, I receive "COMMIT".
> This creates a new table in the default Public schema (have tried to add it
> to another schema using the *someschema.sometable* syntax, but this
> returns an error stating the schema does not exist). In PostGIS, the table
> is created but does not seem to contain information. Also, I am unable to
> open or view the DEM in QGIS.
>

Have you checked if the raster support has been installed? Check if the
raster_columns table exists in the public schema...

Regards

Tim


>
> Thanks in advance
> Chris
>
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