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I'm exporting data from PostGIS to Spatialite using ogr2ogr. The export is working properly, except I need to be able to rename the tables that are being exported. Here's the command I'm using:

ogr2ogr -f "SQLite" testSQLite.sqlite -progress PG:"host=127.0.0.1 dbname=mydb user=admin password=myPassword active_schema=my_schema schemas=my_schema tables=building_shared,alarm_shared" -lco LAUNDER=yes -dsco SPATIALITE=yes -lco SPATIAL_INDEX=yes -overwrite

This exports a Spatialite database with two tables - building_shared and alarm_shared. I want the two tables to be named building and alarm. I tried adding the following SQL query to the end of the command, with no luck:

-sql "SELECT * FROM building_shared AS building"

How do I rename the tables on export?

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From the ogr2ogr docs, use the -nln name option to assign an alternate name to the new layer.

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    I believe that for being able to use -nln you must convert one table at a time. For adding new tables into an existing Spatialite database add -append parameter and remove the -dsco one.
    – user30184
    Aug 28, 2014 at 4:42
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    Related to previous comment, not original question: For new tables in existing SpatiaLite DB use -update. Use -append to add rows to an existing table.
    – Lee Hachadoorian
    Sep 29, 2015 at 16:03
  • I can confirm -nln works well when uploading ESRI FileGeodatabase feature classes to postgres
    – Theo F
    Aug 21, 2019 at 11:34

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