On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:54:48PM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote: > I'd guess you're trying to dump an empty table. Or maybe you're issuing a query that returns no rows. % psql -d postgis -c 'select max(gid) from feb3' max ----- 2 (1 row) % pgsql2shp postgis 'select * from feb3 where gid > 2' Preparing table for user query... Done. Initializing... ERROR: Cannot determine geometry type (empty table). -- Michael Fuhr