[GRASS-user] Question about databases and vector files...

[Markus Neteler]

Jonathan Greenberg wrote on 04/26/2007 07:31 PM:
> As I said -- lots of newbie questions here (I'm a raster man, just now
> beginning to learn the intricacies of vector files beyond "hey, it's a bunch
> of points") -- is there any inherent size limitation for vector files (the
> geometry portion) in grass? 

As far as I remember, Helena imported up to 500 million points - but
without topology (via
v.in.ascii -b ...). As Glynn said, the 2GiB limit is one problem unless
LFS is working for
vector data, too.
>  E.g. should I be fine with the points I've
> described if I use the pg to deal with the database portion, as opposed to
> the standard dbf driver?
>   
Maybe you can give it a try and report back?

Markus

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