[postgis-users] Error while importing data

[Nigel Kukard]

Hi,

I see quite a number more errors (the_geom constraint violations) with
1.0.0rcX, if I paste one of these for you, could you tell me why its
happening?

Regards
Nigel

strk at refractions.net wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:00:20AM +0000, Nigel Kukard wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Guys,
>>
>>I'm new to postgis. I got shape files from our local government,
>>containing all data for South Afica.
>>
>>I installed postgresql 8.0.0, postgis 1.0.0-rc3, proj 4.4.9, gdal 1.2.5,
>>php-5.0.3 & mapserver 4.4.1
>>
>>The first thing i did is pipe lwpostgis.sql & spatial_ref_sys.sql into
>>pgsql.
>>
>>I continued to run shp2pgsql on one of the shape files to insert it into
>>my database with
>>shp2pgsql -d drainagexxxxx.shp drainage > /tmp/postgis.sql
>>
>>I then tried to pipe the /tmp/postgis.sql into postgresql,  but got the
>>following error...
>>
>>BEGIN
>>NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "drainage_gid_seq"
>>for serial column "drainage.gid"
>>CREATE TABLE
>>                                  addgeometrycolumn
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>public.drainage.the_geom SRID:-1 TYPE:MULTILINESTRING DIMS:4
>>geometry_column fixed:0
>>(1 row)
>>
>>ERROR:  Invalid type in wbk
>>
>>
>
>Nigel, we have fixed a (Multi)LineString-related bug in shp2pgsql.
>If you can test a CVS snapshot that would help us release RC4.
>
>--strk;
>
>
>
>
>>ERROR:  current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of
>>transaction block
>>ERROR:  current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of
>>transaction block
>>ERROR:  current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of
>>transaction block
>>ROLLBACK
>>
>>
>>most of the shape files import fine, there are a couple of types which
>>give me the above error.
>>
>>any help would greatly be appreciated, if need be I can attach the
>>actual sql file or any other info needed.
>>
>>Regards
>>Nigel Kukard
>>
>>
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