[gdal-dev] Dump Shapefile into DB using ogr2ogr

[Chaitanya kumar CH]

Ingo,

By default a Feature ID column is entered into the database regardless of
the fields. No duplicates or null values.
Perhaps you might want to modify this column.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Ingo Weinzierl <
ingo.weinzierl at intevation.de> wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply, but the "-select" option only solves one
> of the two parts of my problem. I still need to append a further
> column that does not exist in the shapefile and which should be
> defined manually.
> I already played a while with VRT files. I tried to define a <Field>
> node for each column I want to insert into my database - without any
> success...
>
> Regards, Ingo
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 05:00:58PM +0530, Chaitanya kumar CH wrote:
> > Ingo,
> >
> > Use the -select option with an empty string in ogr2ogr [1].
> > ogr2ogr -select "" dest.shp src.shp
> >
> > [1]: http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Ingo Weinzierl <
> > ingo.weinzierl at intevation.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello GDAL community,
> > >
> > > I have already used GDAL to get information about shapefiles or to
> > > insert a shapefile into a database. So, many thanks to all of you!
> > >
> > > Now, I've just tried to dump a shapefile into an existing table of a
> > > spatial database (PostGIS / Oracle) using ogr2ogr. Therefore, I need
> > > some help:
> > >
> > > The only thing of the shapefile I need is the geometry column, but
> > > the database schema requires a further Integer column (NOT NULL
> > > constraint). In my use-case, I would like to define this Integer
> > > value manually while calling ogr2ogr. Therefore, I've already
> > > searched for some VRT examples, with no success.
> > >
> > > In simple words: I want to insert the geometry column (shapefile)
> > > and an Integer value (manually defined) into a pre-defined spatial
> > > database (PostGIS / Oracle).
> > >
> > > I would be glad if someone could give me some hints how to realize
> > > such a ogr2ogr call.
> > >
> > > Regards, Ingo
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> > Chaitanya kumar CH.
> >
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> 18998
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>



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Best regards,
Chaitanya kumar CH.

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