[postgis-users] pgsql2shp.exe fails with Windows Vista

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Dan Blomberg wrote:

> I have an issue.  Using PostGIS 1.3.3 and Windows Vista (business and 
> home) each time I go and run the command to export the database to a 
> shapefile a popup box immediately comes out and says "pgsql2shp.exe has 
> stopped working" and you only have the option to kill the process or 
> send an error report then kill it.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas or solutions?
> 
> Dan
> http://www.gpsfiledepot.com


Hi Dan,

I did a quick search on your error message, and I see some reports that 
disabling DEP in Vista resolves the issue. However XP SP2 has this 
issue, and I don't see it on my build system - I might need to go and do 
some more checks...


HTH,

Mark.

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