[GRASS-user] Problems with v.external

Markus Neteler neteler at fbk.eu
Tue Dec 4 15:54:12 EST 2007


hi Andreas,

it seems to work here. Could it be that your OGR installation is
not compiled with PG support?
ogrinfo --formats
tells you.

Markus


Andreas Neumann-7 wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to use postgis datasets read-only using v.external. However, I
> am having problems. Here is my command:
> 
> v.external dsn="PG:host=localhost dbname=uster user=an password=mypw"
> layer=natur.naturnahe_gaerten output=gaerten
> 
> And here is my error message:
> 
> Sorry, <dbname> is not a valid parameter
> Sorry, <user> is not a valid parameter
> Sorry, <password> is not a valid parameter
> 
> I expected to run into problems with schemas, maybe, but not with the
> login. What am I doing wrong in the dsn parameters?
> 
> Thanks for any hints,
> Andreas
> 
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