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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Is there a known bug when translating data from postgreSQL
to an ESRI shapefile?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am trying to do it using a sql statement as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>>ogr2ogr –f “ESRI Shapefile” skamaniacounty.shp
“PG:dbname=dcmms host=localhost user=postgres password=password” –sql
“select * from wacounties a, wacounties b where b.county_nm=’Skamania’
and a.wkb_geometry && b.wkb_geometry and distance(a.wkb_geometry,
b.wkb_geometry) = 0;”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>After a few moments I get a Microsoft Windows error report
popup stating that ogr2ogr.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. However
if I execute the exact same line replacing “*” with “a.county_nm”
it works. It’s not the “*” because I also tried spelling out
all of the field names. Here is a list of the fields in the wacounties: ogc_fid
:: int, wkb_geometry :: geometry, area :: float, perimeter :: float, wacounties
:: int, wacounti_1 :: int, county_cod :: int, county_fip :: varchar, county_nm
:: varchar, ecy_region :: varchar, air_region :: varchar, shape_leng :: float,
shape_area :: float. I am assuming it is because of either the ogc_fid field or
the wkb_geometry field but I have no idea why. Any ideas would be great.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Frances Collier<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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