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I'm trying to use ogr2ogr to upload a shapefile to a remote PostGres installation. When I ran this command:

celenius:~ celenius$ ogr2ogr -f PostgreSQL PG:"host=255.34.00.00 user=postgres dbname=mydb password=***" Dropbox/data/roads.shp;

I got the following error message: 

Unable to find driver `PostgreSQL'.
The following drivers are available:
  -> `ESRI Shapefile'
  -> `MapInfo File'
  -> `UK .NTF'
 ...
  -> `SVG'
  -> `CouchDB'
  -> `Idrisi'
  -> `ARCGEN'
  -> `SEGUKOOA'
  -> `SEGY'

(I omitted some of the drivers as they are not relevant). Is there a way that I can update ogr2ogr to include PostgreSQL? I'm using a Mac with OS 10.7.4

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Save yourself some pain and use the Kyngchaos packaged binaries/frameworks for OSX.GDAL-Complete is the one you are looking for.

Another option is to use HomeBrew.

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AFAIK this is what I used. I didn't install it any other way. – djq Sep 12 '12 at 21:48
Does this file exist: /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/Current/Libraries/libpq.dylib and what does the 'which ogrinfo' command return from the terminal? – Ragi Yaser Burhum Sep 12 '12 at 23:05
which ogrinfo returns /usr/local/bin/ogrinfo. I installed GDAL and others from KyngChaos before installing QGis. – djq Sep 12 '12 at 23:24
Does the libpq file I mentioned exist in that location? – Ragi Yaser Burhum Sep 12 '12 at 23:37
If libpq.dylib is not there (the PostgreSQL client library), the OGR library will not load. – Ragi Yaser Burhum Sep 14 '12 at 22:14
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From reading the ogr2ogr Vector formats doc, it looks like you need to install the PostgreSQL client library (libpq).

This similar question seems to give some insight into resolving a similar issue, just with Python bindings.

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assuming you've compiled gdal from source, just include --with-pg=/path/to/pg_config when you're configuring gdal. 

./configure -with-pg=/path/to/pg_config ...

./make clean

./make

./make install
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