[postgis-users] pgAdminIII crashes when import SQL

[Obe, Regina]

PgAdmin III is not designed for opening large sql files.  
 
You should be using  psql as you described - something like below
psql -h someserver -d gisdb -U someuser -f myshapefiles.sql
 
 
 If you are not local to the server, you need to specific the host name
too and run the above from a command line and preferably specify the
name of the user you are connecting as.  If you don't have trust between
the server and pc you are on - you will be prompted for password.
 
Its generally easier to just copy the sql file to the postgresql server
and use the psql command line locally.
 
Hope that helps,
Regina

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[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of
Xiaoyu Guan
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:20 AM
To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
Subject: [postgis-users] pgAdminIII crashes when import SQL


Dear all:
Here I have some problems with pgAdminIII. I am not a PostGIS
export,(neither SQL). but I still want to use PostGIS. I have two ESRI
shapefiles. each file have many attribute. here is some steps what I
did. 
Step 1. shp2pgsql. (win xp)
shp2pgsql -s 4326 -i -I myshapefile.shp myshapefile > myshapefile.sql

this step is work fine. I got two sql files, one is over 445MB, another
one is over 122MB. 

Step 2. using query tools in pgAdmin III . 
crashes happpens when I am opening the two sql file in query tools of my
database. my pc is Intel Core Dual, 2GB ram, then XP warning is that
some memory(0x00b45d2c) could not be writen. I attached screen shot.

some others. then I try to use psql command. 
psql -d mydatabase -f myshapefiles.sql

then I am not sure how psql works. I can use QGIS open the database, but
not my GeoServer or uDig. 

is there anyboday have similar situations before?

All the best 

Xiaoyu


-- 
Xiaoyu Guan (Sam)
Geo-information Science
Wageningen UR




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