[GRASSLIST:2287] Re: Grass 5.7 database

[Radim Blazek]

On Monday 19 January 2004 08:57, francesco.pirotti wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a question on Database management with GRASS 5.7...
> In the part of the tutorial "Geometry Stored in PostGRASS database table
> using PostGIS"
> (http://grass.itc.it/grass51/tutorial/geom_storage.html#PostGRASS)
>
> The example says to take a shape file registered with v.shape.register and
> use v.convert to import it into a PostGRES database with PostGIS format. It
> did not work with me (gives me a "vector map not found" error), and the man
> page for v.convert says that it is used to convert 5.0 vectors to 5.1... Am
> I doing something wrong or am I missing something?

v.convert converts 5.0 vectors to 5.7 format. If you want to store vectors in 
PostGIS, run v.in.ogr.

Radim