[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #3682: Strange fieldlength in result of pgsql2shp

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#3682: Strange fieldlength in result of pgsql2shp
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 Reporter:  postgispaul    |      Owner:  robe
     Type:  defect         |     Status:  new
 Priority:  medium         |  Milestone:  PostGIS 2.3.2
Component:  loader/dumper  |    Version:  2.0.x
 Keywords:                 |
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 When I export a query to a shapefile, boolean columns are converted to
 logical fields with a length of 2.

 Don't know if it is allowed by the shape/dbf specs, but arcgis isn't able
 to open them.
 Other tools (f.e. qgis) are opening them correctly though

 it's this piece in http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk/loader/pgsql2shp-
 core.c
 if (pgfieldtype == 16)
 {
  dbffieldtype = FTLogical;
  dbffieldsize = 2;
  dbffielddecs = 0;
 }

 Any particular reason for setting the length to 2?
 Svn history didn't show any changes there since the file was added.

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