pgsql2shp command...need help

[w m]

Thanks Paul:)
Okay everthing is installed and its up and running.
now the point that im stuck at is that im not sure what to put in my geometry column.
im not using sql commnads. im using the pgadmin interface


but at the top it gives me this error

SQL error:

ERROR:  column "latitude" does not exist



In statement:
INSERT INTO "geometry_columns" ("f_table_catalog", "f_table_schema", "f_table_name", "f_geometry_column", "coord_dimension", "srid", "type", "attrelid", "varattnum", "stats")

VALUES (Latitude, public, 'Hotspots', circle, '45.5177', '1', polygon, '1', '1', '1')



so it says that insert failed

f_table_catlog is a clomun from my  table??? If yea thats why i put latitude. the column latitude does exist in my table called hotspots

do i have to worry about entering values in every field?

and what exactly has to go in coord_dimension...can i put any values...or i have to put the real latitude ( or my values in the latitude?)  is it supposed to be in the form of x, y coordiantes??



Thanks

 Wokar









Paul Spencer <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
wokar,

pgsql2shp is distributed with the postgis extension to postgres. When
you have a properly configured postgis database, you can create geometry
columns in your tables and they represent real geometries. Your table
has no 'geometry' column so the utility doesn't know how to create a
shape file for it ... so it just created the attribute table.

I will assume you have two columns that represent the latitude and
longitude. You need to review the postgis documentation on adding
postgis support into your database. There are several steps, including
(but not limited to) running the contents of postgis.sql and
spatial_ref_sys.sql. If you haven't done this yet, you will have to.

Once you have spatial support installed, you can then create a new
geometry column in your table (again, the postgis documentation has the
necessary steps).

Once you have created the geometry column, you can put real geometries
in using an sql statement like:

update hotspots set the_geom=GeometryFromText( "POINT(" ||
longitude::STRING || " " || latitude::STRING || ")", -1);

which will create a POINT geometry from your lon/lat fields. Note the
syntax may be wrong and you may have to change it depending on how you
are storing the lon/lat values.

Once you have the_geom populated, you can run pgsql2shp :)

Cheers

Paul

w m wrote:
> Hi,
> Im trying to use the pgsql2shp command to convert a very small table from pgadmin
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> My database is called montreal and the table is called hotspots
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> in the root dierectory i do the following.
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> i get the following error
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> -bash-2.05b$ pgsql2shp Montreal Hotspots
> Initializing... No geometry column found.
> The DBF file will be created but not the shx or shp files.
> Done.
> Dumping: XX [4 rows].
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> What am I doing wrong????
> where is the geometry column supposed to be?
> and where does this newly created DBF file reside?
> Thanks
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> wokar
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