On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:43:46PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:39:05PM -0800, kmohan wrote: > > I am trying to export my spatial data from postgres to shae using pgsql2shp > > command. > > When i keyed in the syntax pgsql2shp -f pl dcmms plss > > It is showing fe_sendauth: no password supplied > > Please can some one help me on how to import it to shape file. > > I can't find any docs on that program quickly, but it's evidently > looking for a password. You could: pgsql2shp is part of PostGIS. Running pgsql2shp with no arguments gives a help message; see also "Using the Dumper" in the PostGIS documentation. http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch04.html > - Find a way to give it the password or You can use the -P option for this, although providing a password on the command line has security implications and should usually be avoided. pgsql2shp -P yourpassword -f pl dcmms plss > - Setup your system so it does not need a password. See the "Client Authentication" and "libpq - C Library" chapters in the PostgreSQL documentation to learn more about authentication (adjust the following links for whatever version of PostgreSQL you're running). http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/client-authentication.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/libpq.html -- Michael Fuhr
