>I don't quite understand your example :
>
>"if the field numeric in the shapefile instead of be fill with numbers was
>filled with '1', '2', '3', etc...
>where the number are however not really numbers but text based, an action of
>importing always 0.
>Will be more confusing. The user don't und
14, 2010 3:18 AM
To: PostGIS Users Discussion
Subject: [postgis-users] shp2pgsql fails on malformed integer attribute
> aman.verma at mcgill.ca<http://mcgill.ca> wrote..
>If you use shp2pgsql to upload a shapefile with an attribute table that has a
>malformed integer
>(like a
> aman.verma at mcgill.ca wrote..
>If you use shp2pgsql to upload a shapefile with an attribute table that has
a malformed integer
>(like a letter), shp2pgsql will not correct it, and the upload will fail.
>Normally, I would view this as 'expected behaviour' (garbage in, garbage
out). However, I
Aman,
Thanks for the informative post. Could you put the relevant parts and
your example file into the issue tracker at
http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis
so we have a record of it? I can see the benefit in handling data in
the "way others do" for maximum ease of use.
Yours,
Paul
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010
Hi everybody,
This is my first post to the list. Please let me know (flame) if this is not a
suitable place to post.
If you use shp2pgsql to upload a shapefile with an attribute table that has a
malformed integer (like a letter), shp2pgsql will not correct it, and the
upload will fail.
Normal
