I use the external recoding for shapefiles and other sql files witch are in LATIN9. The postgres recoding to utf-8 sometimes fail. The external program "recode" do a lazy recoding and that output is accepted by postgres.
Maybe the problem occurs only für me. Gr Ralf Am Montag 15 März 2010 10:02:13 schrieb 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 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: postgis-users-boun...@postgis.refractions.net > [mailto:postgis-users-boun...@postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Ralf > Suhr > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 4:38 AM > To: postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Changing transaction behaviour in shp2pgsql > -summary > > 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; > > > > > > () Free GIS & Flash consultant/developer > > > /\ http://strk.keybit.net/services.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > postgis-users mailing list > > > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > > > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > postgis-users mailing list > > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
