[postgis-users] Changing transaction behaviour in shp2pgsql

[Ben Madin]

G'day all,

I'm using shp2pgsql to import a road network, of which the fine detail is not so important. 

Mac OS X 10.6.2  POSTGIS="1.4.1" GEOS="3.2.0-CAPI-1.6.0" PROJ="Rel. 4.7.1, 23 September 2009" USE_STATS (thanks William K)


$ shp2pgsql -s 28350 /Users/owner/Spatial/country/AUS/WA/MRWA/mrwa_network.shp gis.mrwa_gda94 | psql australia

During the import a number of times (4) I get the 

	ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xec5343
	HINT:  This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by 	"client_encoding".
	ERROR:  current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block

and the next several hundred records are skipped.

When I put the -W UTF8 flag in , I miss the errors but die when I get to about 101000 (out of 150000) records in :

INSERT 0 1
INSERT 0 1
INSERT 0 1
INSERT 0 1
ERROR:  syntax error at end of input
LINE 1: ...e_geom) VALUES ('1.15574000000e+005','GILMORE ST (SCADDAN)',


in the event I can't work out the encoding, is there any way to turn off the transaction behaviour, ie I'm happy to miss 4 records, but not 1000 as a result of the transactions being aborted. (short of putting it all into a text file and removing all the begin and commit commands...)

cheers

Ben