FW: [postgis-users] ": can't parse "ne 1, pg_atoi: error in " &empty strings in shp2pgsql output... - Mailing list pgsql-cygwin

From Mike Leahy
Subject FW: [postgis-users] ": can't parse "ne 1, pg_atoi: error in " &empty strings in shp2pgsql output...
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All,

On Norman's recommendation below, I'm forwarding this question to this list...

Kind regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-
bounces@postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Norman Vine
Sent: September 13, 2003 8:48 PM
To: PostGIS Users Discussion
Subject: RE: [postgis-users] ": can't parse "ne 1, pg_atoi: error in " &empty
strings in shp2pgsql output...

Mike Leahy writes:
>
> I’ve just installed Cygwin (on WinXP) and compiled the latest
> available versions of PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
>
> When I run a COPY query to import data from a tab-separated DOS-text
> file I get the following message:
>
> ": can't parse "ne 1, pg_atoi: error in "
>
> Sometimes it’s followed by a number.  I know this is caused because my
> data files are windows text files - when I convert the files to UNIX
> text files using UltraEdit32, it works fine (though I now have to
> specify that empty strings are null values).  I know that this problem
> is specifically to do with the PostgreSQL - but I'm just curious if
> anyone on this list knows of an easy fix that doesn’t require
> converting all my files...perhaps a setting in Cygwin or something
> (I’ve already tried installing it with the DOS file setting, and I’ve
> tried compiling PostgreSQL/PostGIS with all the fopen or popen
> commands with the t argument for text).

d2u part of the cygutils package might be easier then using an editor

If that isn;t satisfactory I would try asking this question on the Cygwin
PostgreSQL list mailto:pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org

Norman



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