[mapserver-users] Mapserver/PostGIS map file problem (double quotes in layer 'DATA' element)

Peter Willis peterw at borstad.com
Wed May 27 19:29:54 EDT 2009


Hello,

Darn!, I just sent a [RESOLVED] with the same solution.
(just as I was receiving your email...)
Yes, this is how I managed to to make it work.

Everything works now.
I guess you get the badge for that one.

Thanks for your help.

Peter



Simon Haddon wrote:
> Have you tried
> 
> DATA 'the_geom from (select oid,gid, the_geom,
>      "Area","Perimeter","PixelValue" FROM "global_Land_poly" WHERE
> "PixelValue"=1 )
>      AS FOO using SRID=4326'
> 
> The other options is to change the table name and column names to be lower
> case or case insensitive. Mixed case table and column names are always a
> pain in any database system.
> 
> If you can't modify the table then try creating a view and using the view
> in your query instead. Make sure your view is created all lower case
> without quotes.  This will probably mean you will need to alias your select
> to lower case the column names and you will probably have to add it to the
> postgis geometry tables manually but other than that it will work.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 


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