[Mapserver-users] Accessing PostGIS layers via OGR in MapServer

[Frank Warmerdam]

Mike Leahy wrote:
> I was sure of that - I played around with orginfo and ogr2ogr exporting
> tables to shapefiles and such before I got to trying it in MapServer.  Could
> it be my setup?  I.e., does the mapserv.exe in my Inetpub/Scripts folder for
> IIS actually use the OGR I compiled in Cygwin?  I think maybe not...

Mike,

It certainly looks like you do have postgres/postgis support in your standalone
GDAL/OGR build, but in answer to your question, MapServer won't use that unless
it was build against it (and if all the DLLs are properly placed).

Sorry.

Best regards,
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