[udig-devel] Unable to add a multilinestringm layer from postgis

[Webb Sprague]

Cool -- thanks for the help, and I am glad to have found a bug.

W

On 1/8/07, Jesse Eichar <jeichar at refractions.net> wrote:
> Hi I imported the shapefile you sent me.  It is a bug in Geotools.
> Geotools doesn't know how to deal withMULTILINESTRINGM files.  But a
> work around until we get it fixed in geotools is to just change the
> type of the table in GeometryTables to be MULTILINESTRING instead of
> MULTILINESTRINGM.  Do this and it will render fine.  Otherwise I'm
> making a bug report in Geotools.
>
> Jesse
>
>
> On 7-Jan-07, at 1:13 PM, Webb Sprague wrote:
>
> > Hi Jesse,
> >
> >> Since you can view it as shape file I would guess that there is
> >> something strange about how it is being imported into postgis or some
> >> other postgis setting.  Does uDig have access to the Geometry Columns
> >> table?
> >
> > I have imported multiple other postgis things into the same uDig
> > instance, and they work fine.  They were all shp2psql'ed the same way.
> > I haven't imported any *line* features, just polygon and point, and
> > if you want me try something let me know.
> >
> > I can also capture log output, but you will have to tell me how to
> > find it.
> >
> > I am running on Mac OS X
> >
> > Oh -- there is another weird thing:  on the other postgis imports, I
> > would have to restart udig to make it able to see changes to the
> > database (like new area columns ...).  A restart did NOT solve my
> > multilinestringm problem, though (I tried).
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