[postgis-users] pgsql2shp help

[lisek lichu]

use that:

pgsql2shp -f output.shp -P password -u user -g the_geom dbname tablemane

in my databaseit works :P

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Dara Olson <dolson at glifwc.org> wrote:
> Greetings.  I am VERY new to all of this and teaching myself, but I am
> attempting to convert one of the tables back to an ESRI shapefile using the
> following:
>
> pgsql2shp -f d:/shapefiles/dara -p 5432 -U dara -g the_geom postgis invspp
>
> [postgis (database) and invspp (table)]
>
> I get an error stating "invalid option or command parameters".  I have done
> many searches and used various examples, but can't seem to get it to work.
> Would anyone know what is wrong with the command?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> miigwech!
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