[postgis-users] Live access to PostGIS from MapInfo

[InterRob]

Dear all,
In case if anyone is still wondering or to everyone who hits this thread in
the future wondering why MapInfo won't connect to your PostGIS table in Live
Access mode: try re-installing MapInfo; it worked for me.

Cheerz,


Rob

2009/10/7 InterRob <rob.marjot at gmail.com>

> Thank you for the suggestion; again something I did not think of (!)...
> So I tried some really 'easy' little datasets; points with some INT
> attributes. Still no luck, though...
>
> It seems that MapInfo v10 is not compatible with PostGIS 1.4.0. This makes
> me wondering, having the error message in mind ("Unable to translate the
> Spatial Constraint."): is this spatial constraint expressed differently in
> PostGIS 1.4.0 , comparing it to, say, 1.3.5? One could even think of even
> very small differences like capitals in functions e.g. st_srid() versus
> ST_srID() etc. etc. At least success has been reported (by some other users,
> like you Richard) of working with PostGIS (1.3.5 or lower) from MapInfo...
>
> Does any one have a clue?
>
>
> Rob
>
> 2009/10/6 Richard Greenwood <richard.greenwood at gmail.com>
>
> Just for the record - I have MapInfo Live Access (not cached) working
>> nicely with MI 10.0, pgsql 8.3.6,  PostGIS 1.3 on a mixed geometry
>> table (multi-polygons & points) of about 14000 rows. Attribute queries
>> are disappointingly slow, but map rendering is very fast.
>>
>> --
>> Richard Greenwood
>> richard.greenwood at gmail.com
>> www.greenwoodmap.com
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