[postgis-devel] Patch: preserve scale and precision when in pgsql2shp

[Peter Hopfgartner]

Hi

This patch uses the precision and scale information from the database 
server in order to write the shape file. The advantage is twofold: a 
major control on the shape file format and less disk space used when 
writing DECIMALs/NUMERICs which have a precision of less then 32 digits.

The topic was in some way discussed in 
http://postgis.17.x6.nabble.com/Maintain-length-and-precision-for-numneric-fields-in-pgsql2shp-and-shp2pgsql-td3548722.html.

The  patch is against branch 1.5. If the approach is ok, I can prepare a 
patch for trunk.

Regards,

Peter

R3 GIS
http://www.r3-gis.com

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