[postgis-users] Shp2Pgsql - how to handle carriage returns ?

[Ivan Mincik]

On Friday 03 April 2009, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have a shapefile I would like to import into my database, but the  
> shp2pgsql seems to have problems with carriage returns in the DBF:
> 
> 	ERROR:  literal carriage return found in data
> 	HINT:  Use "\r" to represent carriage return.
> 
> What can I do about it? I don't see any solution, other than deleting  
> the column where this occurs. But that's not very cool...
> 
> Thanks for any hints,
> 
> Stef
Try to do not use dump format ( don't use parameter -D).  shp2pgsql will use simple INSERT INTO command. It will take longer time to import, but it can solve your problem.
Ivan
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