So far I have loaded all the parcel tables (with geometry information) in Alaska to PostgreSQL. The tables are originally stored in dump format. Now, I want to convert each table in Postgres to shapefile through cmd interface using ogr2ogr.
My code is something like below:
ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" "G:\...\Projects\Dataset\Parcel\test.shp" PG:"dbname=parceldb host=localhost port=5432 user=postgres password=postgres" -sql "SELECT * FROM ak_fairbanks"
However, the system kept returning me this info: Unable to open datasource
PG:dbname='parceldb' host='localhost' port='5432' user='postgres' password='postgres'
With the following drivers.
There is pgsql2shp option also available. For this you need to have this utility in your system.
The command that can be follow for this conversion is
pgsql2shp -u <username> -h <hostname> -P <password> -p 5434 -f <file path to save shape file> <database> [<schema>.]<table_name>
This command has other options also which can be seen on this link.