> OK now we are getting somewhere! I did the following: > > env PG_LIST_ALL_TABLES=YES ogrinfo --debug on PG:'dbname=mydb' > PG: DBName="mydb" > PG: PostgreSQL version string : 'PostgreSQL 8.4.9 on > x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.5.1 20100924 (Red > Hat 4.5.1-4), 64-bit' > PG: PostGIS version string : '1.5 USE_GEOS=1 USE_PROJ=1 USE_STATS=1' > PG: Field f_table_name is of unknown format type name (type=name). > PG: Field f_table_catalog is of unknown format type name (type=name). > PG: Field f_table_schema is of unknown format type name (type=name). > PG: Field f_geography_column is of unknown format type name (type=name). > PG: Primary key name (FID): id > PG: Using column 'id' as FID for table 'products_swordxml' > OGR: OGROpen(PG:dbname=mydb/0xbd4940) succeeded as PostgreSQL. > INFO: Open of `PG:dbname=mydb' > using driver `PostgreSQL' successful. > OGR: GetLayerCount() = 6 > > 1: geography_columns (None) > 2: products_swordxml (None) > 3: pxml_points > 4: sword_trap > 5: sword_trap2 > 6: sword_trapz > > Now I know the last 3 tables/layers do have geometry because I can > display them in QGIS.
I believe that now you should be able to display their content. The (none) behind the 2 first one means that OGR detects that they are indeed not spatial tables. The absence of it on the 4 last tables means that OGR detects a geometry column but cannot determine the precise geometry type : that is to say if its a point, line, polygon, etc... But that's OK. So you could try "env PG_LIST_ALL_TABLES=YES ogrinfo PG:'dbname=mydb' pxml_points" and I believe you should see features with their geometry reported. > > The original table products_swordxml was given to me as a mysql file and > has no gemetry per se. > There are coordinates embedded in the table. So I did a create table as > select *, geomfromtext etc > to get the geometry into geometry. Could this be why ogr is not seeing > it as geometry even though qgis does? Hum, my guess is that the way you have created them did not register them in the geometry_columns table. OGR only lists by default spatial tables registered into that table. So you could try adding manually an entry in geometry_columns for those tables with the appropriate SELECT AddGeometryColumn(....) statement. See PostGIS doc for that. After doing so, the PG_LIST_ALL_TABLES=YES will not be necessary. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev