Having spent the day looking at my problem it appears to be a fault in the Intel graphic driver. Word has it that long text lengths (the shapefiles I downloaded fit that description) apparently causes a fault in the driver.
So there doesn't seem to be any problem with Postgis except, perhaps, verbosity. Thanlks for the help. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Obe, Regina To: PostGIS Users Discussion Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:29 PM Subject: RE: [postgis-users] Windows Crash Slightly off topic. Has anyone seen this Linux Haters Blog. All Linux users should read it to understand how the mind of a windows user works so that we can interoperate. http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/ Similarly I would like to see a windows haters blog so I can form a fully unbiased opinion of the various factions. Is there such a thing? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Rindahl Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:53 PM To: PostGIS Users Discussion Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Windows Crash Also on a long shot - do you have any hardware conflicts? Start->Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager Are there any little yellow info symbols? Bruce Paul Ramsey wrote: This is in no way a PostGIS problem, certainly nothing we can ever fix, just something that the particular combination of PgAdmin, the geometry we are feeding it, and the way the Windows rendering system are interacting. My experience has been that these days the thing that causes a modern operating system (Windows, Linux, whatever) to crash is bad hardware, usually bad memory, but sometimes other things. Basically, the operating system itself is usually rock solid until you shake the foundations it sits on, the hardware. So basically, all I can offer is the doctor's advice to the patient who said "doctor, doctor, it hurts when I raise my arm over my head!"... "don't raise your arm over your head". In the meantime, if you want to fiddle with things, swapping the order of your memory in the sockets, changing out the video card, even changing your screen resolution, might change the interaction such that you can exercise this particular use case without dropping your OS to the floor. P. On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Obe, Regina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I second Bruce's comment about unhelpful comments. It may actually have nothing to do with Windows in fact. Now getting back to the crash issue. Bob if you are still having the same issue with that file, maybe you can post that (or provide a link to the shape file you loaded). It could be something to do with the shapefile. I recall having this same issue with one particular geometry file way back in PgAdmin 1.6 and it was when I scrolled to a specific record it would crash, but then later additions (I either maybe never selected the geometry field again) or it was fixed in later versions. Doing an AsText always seemed to work where as displaying the raw binary was where I ran into issues. The other possibility is that it could be a defective graphics card. I forget which video cards I had bad runs with, but I remember having this same exact issue with my favorite programming editor JEdit. I had 2 identical computers with same drivers etc and for some reason I would get intermittent crashes on one of them. I finally just got fed up and replaced the graphics card and then it worked fine. Just some thoughts. Thanks, Regina ________________________________ The substance of this message, including any attachments, may be confidential, legally privileged and/or exempt from disclosure pursuant to Massachusetts law. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ________________________________ Help make the earth a greener place. If at all possible resist printing this email and join us in saving paper. _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The substance of this message, including any attachments, may be confidential, legally privileged and/or exempt from disclosure pursuant to Massachusetts law. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Help make the earth a greener place. If at all possible resist printing this email and join us in saving paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
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