shp2pgsql-gui1

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the shp2pgsql-gui command.

shp2pgsql-gui is a program that converts ESRI Shape files into SQL statements and imports these statements to a PostGIS/PostgreSQL database. The GUI allows the user to set the shape file to import, the PostGIS/PostgreSQL connection parameters and some options related to the table where the data will be imported to.

shp2pgsql-gui can be called with some command line options that fill the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server connection parameters in.

Options

-d database

Specifies the name of the database where the data will be imported to.

-h host

Specifies the host name of the machine on which the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server is running.

-p port

Specifies the TCP port on which the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server is listening for connections.

-U username

Specifies the username with which the user will connect to the database.

-W password

Specifies the password with which the user will connect to the database.

-?

Shows help about shp2pgsql-gui command line arguments.