I have two machines, suse and gentoo suse: select version(); PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) select postgis_full_version(); POSTGIS="1.0.3" PROJ="Rel. 4.4.8, 3 May 2004" USE_STATS DBPROC="0.3.0" RELPROC="0.3.0" gentoo: select version(); PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8) select postgis_full_version(); POSTGIS="1.1.0CVS" GEOS="2.1.4" PROJ="Rel. 4.4.9, 29 Oct 2004" USE_STATS DBPROC="0.3.1" RELPROC="0.3.1" running: shp2pgsql -c streets.shp streets | psql -d dbname suse, no problem! gentoo: ERROR: unterminated quoted string at or near "'010500000001000000010... trying: shp2pgsql -D streets.shp streets dbname > streets.sql suse, no problem! gentoo: Shapefile type: Arc Postgis type: MULTILINESTRING[2] Segmentation fault finally: Trying to import streets.sql generated on the suse machine into postgresql running on the gentoo machine also fails: psql:streets.sql:1350: invalid command \N What is it with the gentoo installation? What should I upgrade or downgrade to remedy this problems I'm having? Please help, it is really important that I get this done and I'm really stuck trying to solve it. Kind Regards, Christo Du Preez ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
