[postgis-users] Shp2pgsql - ability to generate a linestring table

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, Strk,

strk at refractions.net wrote:
> The problem is that there's no LINESTRING type in shapefiles.
> SHPT_ARC type is *any* number of lines into a record.
> So, the only way would be scanning the whole shapefile and IFF
> all records only have a single item use LINESTRING TYPE.

We could add a --no-multi comand line switch, and abort when we stumble
accross a "real" MultiLineString.

HTH,
Markus

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