[Gdal-dev] Ogr2ogr crashes for MiF/Mid

[Frank Warmerdam]

Marc Jacquin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Ogr2ogr seems to be a convenient tool for transforming WKT geometries into
> other formats like Shape files or MapInfo files.
> 
> But ogr2ogr crashes when using MapInfo File output, runs OK for the same
> command line with ESRI Shapefile output.
> 
> ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File" d:/temp/aaaa.mif PG:"user=xxx dbname=postgres
> host=localhost port=5432 password=zzzz" -sql "select
> Geomfromtext('POLYGON((-15 -15, -15 15, 15 15,15 -15,-15 -15))')"
> 
> It runs OK too with the name of a table instead of the SQL statement.

Marc,

I was able to reproduce your problem and found introducing at least one
attribute column avoided the problem:

ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File" out.mif PG:dbname=warmerda -sql "select 1 as id, 
Geomfromtext('POLYGON((-15 -15, -15 15, 15 15,15 -15,-15 -15))')"

If you could file a bug against GDAL/OGR on this issue I will look into
fixing it.

Best regards,
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