[work] [postgis-users] postGIS on windows

Tara Athan tara_athan at alt2is.com
Thu Aug 14 18:39:32 PDT 2008


>
> I am having a really hard time getting going with PostGIS on Windows. I read
> the documentation but it is mostly written for *nix users, and I have
> trouble translating the instructions into something I can do on WIndows (XP
> SP2).
>
> One particular issue I am up against now is figuring out how to use
> pgsql2shp.
>
> This is what I try:
> I open a cmd window and navigate to PostgreSQL\8.3\bin
>
> I type 
> pgsql2shp -f ..\dump -h localhost -p 5432 postgis "postgres" WIN1252 -P
> somepassword
>
> and I get back
> FATAL: password authentication failed for user "Tara"
>
> But I don't have a pg user called "Tara", just postgres...
>
> I am creating this command based on the shortcut that was added to my Start
> Menu to run psql to connect to a database, and I managed to get that to work
> to open the postgis database but I'm not really sure why it is working
> because I am not including a -P password option in that one at all, so I
> can't understand why this modification doesn't work. If I don't include the
> -P option, it says
>
> fe_senauth: no password supplied
>
> Thanks for any advice, Tara
>
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