On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Denise MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ogr2ogr -overwrite -append -skipfailures -f ingres INGRES:mydbname > road.shp > > Now however, the syntax is (as documented on the GDAL website): > > ogr2ogr -overwrite -append -skipfailues -f Ingres > "@driver=ingres,dbname=mydbname,user=mydbuser,password=mypwd" road.shp > > I was wondering if there's a reason to have the syntax so different from > some of the other formats, such as Postgres? (with the @ sign at the > beginning).
Denise, The ingres driver is my first attempt at a new "unified" syntax for complex OGR driver datasource names. This unified syntax for passing many arguments was my intended response to: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc10_ogropen without having to change the normal API. Sorry for breaking the old name style, but I assumed the driver was new enough that I could take the chance to change things without it having much impact. Normally I'm quite conservative about such things. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
