Hi Hermann, On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 01:30:00PM +0200, Hermann Peifer wrote: > On 22/08/2011 13:13, Ingo Weinzierl wrote: > >Hi *, > > > >I already tried the approach below - without success. The result of > >my operation is: > > > >The command: > >------------ > > ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -sql "SELECT cast(999 as integer(3)) as > > river_id from SRCShape" DESTShape.shp SRCShape.shp > > > >The command's result: > >--------------------- > > ERROR 1: SQL: Unrecognised field name 999 > > > > > > What does ogr2ogr --version say? On my side, it says: > GDAL 1.9dev, released 2011/01/18 > > BTW: you could drop `-f "ESRI Shapefile"', as it is the default.
It says "GDAL 1.6.3, released 2009/11/19". This version comes along with Debian Squeeze. Ingo -- Ingo Weinzierl | ++49-541-335083-0 | OpenPGP key: 0x2D2E2573 Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 18998 Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev