[postgis-users] ESRI Geodatabases, relationship classes and PostGIS

[Juan Declet]

Thanks to your input I have been able to input all the ESRI Geodatabase
feature classes and tables. I used the OGR2OGR tool with the parameters
specified by Regina. Note that to append all tables you should omit table
names.

I am able to display the database tables in ArcMap using zigGIS. However,
when I try to add a feature class, I get the following errors in the zigGIS
Feedback window:

1. Unsupported geometry type GEOMETRY
   I understand this was created by the OGR2OGR tool. Can I just delete it?

2. Unsupported type Decimal on FeatureClassNameORTableName.OBJECTID

This is the most troubling of the error messages. The OBJECTID is,
of course, what ESRI uses as primary key to link the spatial vector table to
the attribute table of a feature class.  If this type is not supported, how
can an ESRI Feature Class work correctly in PostGIS?

3. The FeatureClassNameORTableName.gid field was not found.

No idea on what this means.

Thanks!

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Ragi Y. Burhum <ragi at burhum.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:01 PM,
> <postgis-users-request at postgis.refractions.net> wrote:
> >
> > Message: 20
> > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:47:22 -0700
> > From: "Juan Declet" <reguerete at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [postgis-users] ESRI Geodatabases, relationship classes
> >        and PostGIS
> > To: "PostGIS Users Discussion" <postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net>
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> >
> > Can anyone suggest a workaround? I am trying to implement relationship
> > classes from a Personal Geodatabase into PostGIS. What about if I created
> > the relationship classes natively in the PostGIS database server? The
> issue
> > then would be getting ArcMap to recognize the relationship classes and
> > enforce them via editing. I know this is more of an ArcGIS question, but
> am
> > lookin for the input of experienced PostGIS users.
>
> You are working with 2 different abstractions... one at the ArcObjects
> level, and the other one at the RDBMS. Don't get them confused.
>
> If your intent is to simply enforce the cardinality constraint, go
> ahead and create the relationship at the PostgreSQL level. As long as
> you are doing non-versioning editing, your ArcMap save operation will
> be done within a transaction... if an RDBMS error is raised (and you
> will get one if you violate the contraint you created) that
> transaction will be rolled back and you will get the RDBMS message in
> ArcMap. Be mindful that during the edit session you will not see the
> error until ArcMap flushes its edit session (during a save, search,
> etc).
>
> If your intent is to have ArcMap recognize the relationship, for
> example, to be able to navigate it through the object inspector, you
> are going to need to insert the right entries in the GDB_*
> (GDB_Relationships, GDB_ObjectClasses, etc) tables. The easiest bet is
> to create the relationship through ArcCatalog once and check the
> entries it created in those GDB metadata tables so you know how it
> works.
>
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Lee Hachadoorian <
> > lee.hachadoorian at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, ArcCatalog creates a standard Access database table, but enforces
> >> the creation of a unique index called OBJECTID (which is not, however,
> >> actually a primary key).
>
> Ha ha.. that is debatable :-)
>
> >> So what Regina describes should work.
> >>
> >> There's an ogr2ogr cheatsheet at BostonGIS
> >> (http://www.bostongis.com/?content_name=ogr_cheatsheet).
> >>
> >> I'm not sure about the relationship classes question, although my
> >> suspicion is that the conversion works table-by-table on data (spatial
> >> and non-spatial) only.  Since the relationship classes are not stored
> >> in the feature class or non-spatial table itself (they are stored in a
> >> table called GDB_RelClasses), I suspect that ogr2ogr will not do
> >> anything to convert them.  Can someone confirm?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Lee Hachadoorian
> >> PhD Student, Geography
> >> Program in Earth & Environmental Sciences
> >> CUNY Graduate Center
>
> My two cents,
>
> - Ragi Yaser Burhum
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