[postgis-users] Problem with records being stripped out

Paul Ramsey pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
Tue Oct 7 16:05:16 PDT 2008


And a version number of the software you are using.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Paul Ramsey<pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
> Not without some example data....
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Mary Whelan<Mary.Whelan at asu.edu> wrote:
>> We use a stack of GeoServer, PostGIS, and Open Layers.  When I try to load
>> certain shapefiles using the shp2pgsql command, PostGIS seems to strip out
>> some records but not all.  This happens with any US Federal government
>> shapefiles, I suspect ones derived from Census data (it happened with Dept.
>> of Agriculture and GNIS shapefiles today).  The error seems to indicate an
>> encoding problem, but when I look at the original shapefile, there aren’t
>> any accent marks or non-English characters.  Can you help me understand what
>> is happening and how to work around it?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mary Whelan
>>
>> Arizona State University
>>
>>
>>
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