osm2pgsql fails to import data

[Jesusfreak]

Binary package hint: osm2pgsql

The failure occurs with osm2pgsql 0.08-20071112 which comes with Hardy. The error I get is
"failed: ERROR: VACUUM cannot be executed from a function or multi-command string" and I have set autovacuum to off in postgresql.conf already. When I install osm2pgsql 0.52.20080408-2 provided on https://launchpad.net/~bruce89/+archive everything works just fine.

[Rory McCann (rorymcc)]

I can confirm this bug. This is a major problem IMHO because osm2pgsql (the programme provided by this package) is effectivly broken and totally non-functionional.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Is this problem still reproducible?

Thanks

[Charles Curley (charlescurley)]

I don't know if that problem is still reproducible, but this one certainly is: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2009-July/016133.html. Note the advice at the bottom: roll your own. Compiling from source solved *that* problem. I conjecture there's been a change in the data format between the two versions.

Also note the dates on the email and in the package.

ccurley@grissom:~/gpsdrive-trunk$ pre osm2pgsql
osm2pgsql-0.52.20080408-2build1--i386
ccurley@grissom:~/gpsdrive-trunk$

This is using Jackalope, as updated daily.

Please update to the latest stable.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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