[postgis-users] tiger question

[strk at refractions.net]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:55:18AM -0800, Thomas, Cord wrote:
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> I used ogr2ogr to convert some tiger files to ESRI Shapefile.  From
> there, I used shp2pgsql to import the shapefiles into postgres.
> 
> I've noticed that the geometry, CompleteChain for example, has a dbf
> file associated with it.  Is that data grabbed by shp2pgsql, or do I
> need to import the dbf to another table?  If so, what's the best way
> to get a dbf into postgres?

shp2pgsql takes care of importing the dbf.
--strk;