[Gvsig_english] Sql language in the shapefile filter

Marcus C. England marcuscengland at gmail.com
Wed May 21 02:16:54 CEST 2008


Hi Fran,

Thanks for your suggestion, but I get the same response.

-Marcus

Francisco José Peñarrubia wrote:
> Hi.
>
> If you mean sql where clause when you open a Postgis layer, the 
> sentence should be "Postgress compliant". I don't know if you can use 
> county = 'Los Angeles County' but I think you can try county like 'Los 
> Angeles County'.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Fran.
>
> Marcus C. England escribió:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a similar question... I can not get sql restriction to work. 
>> For example, I have a postgis database layer called 
>> "california_counties". This layer has an attribute column called 
>> "county" with the county names. In other programs I can load Los 
>> Angeles County only by using the sql statement:
>>
>> county = 'Los Angeles County'
>>
>> This does not work in gvSIG however. I always get a box that says:
>>
>> "syntax error at or near "=""
>>
>> I can't figure out what the problem is and I am hoping someone can help.
>>
>> -Marcus
>>
>>
>> silvio grosso wrote:
>>> Hello everybody,
>>> I am wondering if is it possible to write some simple query in the 
>>> filter using the SQL language?
>>>
>>> I read gvSIG's manual but I didn't find any example about that.
>>> At present , to select an area I should write: TOPONIMO = 'ASTI' in 
>>> order to get the selection.
>>> Nevertheless, in some cases SQL language is faster.
>>> For example, when I want to select  two areas in a shapefileI am 
>>> obliged to write two times the word TOPONIMO (e.g TOPONIMO = 'ASTI' 
>>> or TOPONIMO =  'Aglie'). When I want to select four or more 
>>> TOPONIMOS in the filter it becomes complicated.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Silvio
>>>
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