[postgis-users] Changing transaction behaviour in shp2pgsql -summary

[Paragon Corporation]

Ralf,

Apologize if you tried this already since we are entering the conversation
late.

Are you sure your shapefiles are in UTF-8.  The -W switch you give to
shp2pgsql has to be the encoding of the shapefile not the encoding of the
database.
The reason is that shp2pgsql converts from the source encoding -W to the
UTF-8 and then does a SET client_encoding UTF-8 during load as I recall.

So I would assume your shapefile are in LATIN-1 or WIN something or other in
which case

     shp2pgsql -s 28350 -W "latin1"

Might work better.

Hope that helps,
Leo and Regina
http://www.postgis.us



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Suhr
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 4:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Changing transaction behaviour in shp2pgsql
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Hello Ben,

I'm doing recoding of shapefiles without postgres when postgres can not do
so.

shp2pgsql [...] | recode shapefile_encoding..utf8 | psql database.

Gr Ralf

Am Montag 15 März 2010 00:51:00 schrieb Ben Madin:
> Thanks all for the feedback - to summarise :
> 
> shp2pgsql - Currently, all output is 'chunked' transactions - changing 
> this behaviour not currently supported. - A patch could be provided to 
> shp2pgsql to do this.
>  - The suggestion is a -T switch with options such as single, chunked, 
> no transactions. - I'm happy to look at submitting a patch... but it 
> won't be until after I've submitted my thesis ...
> 
> The text editor approach is to direct output into a file and find / 
> replace the BEGIN / COMMIT lines.
> 
> The on-the-fly alternative is to use a pattern matching program, with 
> two solutions offered :
> 
> Using sed (thanks Brent)
> 
>     shp2pgsql -s 28350 -W UTF8 \
>     /Users/owner/Spatial/country/AUS/WA/MRWA/mrwa_network.shp \
>     gis.mrwa_gda94 | sed 's/BEGIN//' | sed 's/COMMIT//' psql australia
> 
> 
> Using grep (thanks Steve)
> 
>     shp2pgsql ... | grep -v BEGIN | grep -v COMMIT | psql australia
> 
> cheers
> 
> Ben
> 
> On 15/03/2010, at 4:35 , strk wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 04:58:02PM +0700, Ben Madin wrote:
> >> 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...)
> > 
> > Feel like working on a patch to make "transaction policy" selectable 
> > with a switch ?
> > 
> >  -T <policy> transaction policy (single*,none)
> > 
> > Current policy is chunked, dunno for what rationale..
> > 
> > --strk;
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