Quoting strk <strk@keybit.net>:

> snelson wrote:

> The database name is an obsolete parameted. There is really no need
> to store database name in the geometry_columns table.
> It is accepted for compatibility with old scripts.
> 
> The empty quotes are intended to keep schema name when present.
> If I remember well there should be a version of both Add and Drop
> funx without the first argument as a shell to the former.

After I upgraded from a cvs snapshot taken in the November/December time frame I
forget to follow the steps for upgrading:

http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/x83.html#AEN150

My problem is now resolved :)


> >
> > I'm running version 0.8.1 under cygwin.  I tried the cvs snapshot but it
> fails
> > to compile due to a bunch of errors starting in function parse_commandline
> of
> > pgsql2shp.c.
> >
> > Any ideas on what to do?
> 
> Please report the first lines of the bunch.

I no longer have the error message.  A more recent "cvs co" compiles without errors.




