[postgis-users] ogr2ogr talking to PostGIS

[Frank Warmerdam]

Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
>   I'm having trouble getting ogr2ogr to talk to PostGIS happily.  I can
>   use it to convert from TIGER/Line files to ESRI Shapefiles but when I
>   try to use it to talk convert from TIGER/Line or ESRI Shapefiles to
>   PostGIS is just segfaults.
> 
>   PostgreSQL 7.4.2
>   PostGIS 0.8.1
>   gdal 1.2+cvs.031111
>   2002 TIGER/Line data
>   Debian sid/unstable
> 
>   Anyone have similar problems or suggestions?

Stephen,

Not much to go on here.  What are you using as an argument string to ogr2ogr?
Does ogr2ogr list PostGIS as a format?

Try running "ogrinfo --formats" and verify that "PostgreSQL" is listed.

Best regards,

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