Option "--prefix" ignored for gazetteer output

vramirez122000 commented 8 years ago

When using the gazetteer output option, the table name is hardcoded as "place". It would be useful to prepend the value of the "--prefix" option, just like the regular "pgsql" output, for the following reasons:

The "place" table name conflicts with a table name that is hardcoded in the postgis_tiger_geocode extension
With the prefix option, it would be simpler to load multiple gazetteer tables, one per country. The current functionality requires an extra step to rename the table and indices once the data has been loaded
Not ignoring the prefix option for gazetteer output would make the interface more consistent, with less surprises for the user

asbjornst commented 8 years ago

@vramirez122000 Do you have a suggestion on how to introduce this in a backward compatible manner?

Afterwards see my suggestion in #619

lonvia commented 7 years ago

Nominatim expects the name as it is. So it has to be made configurable over there. I think I would prefer the schema option in that case.

Closing here, as this is a Nominatim issue.

pnorman commented 7 years ago

We should document that this option is for the pgsql backend only, since it also doesn't change the multi-backend

osm2pgsql-dev / osm2pgsql

Option "--prefix" ignored for gazetteer output #600