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[Frank Warmerdam]

On 1/27/06, Marc Jacquin <marc.jacquin at magellium.fr> wrote:
> I am trying to use ogr2ogr to export a layer from PostGis to MapInfo file (in fact I was testing the shapefile output).
>
> The command line I am using looks like :
>
> ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" country PG:"user=xxx dbname=postgres host=localhost port=5432 password=xxxx"  country.shp

Marc,

I'm not exactly sure why there is no error, but your request
above is really asking for country.shp to be translate into
shapefile format and put in your postgis database.

To dump the table country from postgres to shape you would use:

ogr2ogr country.shp PG:"user=..." country

To dump to mapinfo format you would do:

ogr2ogr country.mif PG:"user=..." country

The key is:

 ogr2ogr -f format <dest> <source> layernames...

Best regards,
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