[postgis-users] shp2pgsql: can we ignore invalid (corrupted?) .DBF?

[kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com]

I'm trying to convert SHPs to postGIS tables, but I encountered two kind of problems regarding to invalid DBF.

The first SHP shows weird ASCII characters when I tried to convert it, and the process failed with the following error message:
NULL,fread(45816) failed on DBF file.
(complete error message attached)

When I opened the first SHP with Quantum GIS, its attribute table shows weird ASCII character on column names (pic attached).


The second SHP does not show ASCII characters when I tried to convert it, yet it also failed with the following error message:
dbf file(.dbf) can not be opened.

And when I tried to open the second SHP with Quantum GIS, its attribute table only shows one single column named "ID" (pic also attached).


Yet DBF files do exist for both SHP. What's wrong? What's going on?

Can I just convert the attribute data while completely ignoring the invalid .DBF attribute? What is the shp2pgsql switch for the purpose?


Thanks,
-Kresh




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