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

[Jesse Eichar]

That's the default behaviour of shp2psql.  I did the same thing and  
got the same result.

Jesse
On 8-Jan-07, at 11:41 AM, Webb Sprague wrote:

>> 4. What tool did you use to load the data?
>
> shp2psql.
>
>>
>> P
>>
>> Webb Sprague wrote:
>> > 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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