[GRASS-user] populate a table with values from another one

[Moritz Lennert]

On 27/05/08 20:59, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Manuel Sangiao wrote:
> 
>> someone knows why this statement doesn't work?
>>
>> echo "UPDATE grenzen gr SET gr.cleft=(SELECT adm.NAME FROM myadm0 amd WHERE gr.left= adm.cat)" | db.execute
> 
> Which database back-end are you using? The DBF driver only understands
> a fairly limited subset of SQL; in particular, it doesn't support
> subselects.

And just as importantly, AFAIK, it does not support the use of more than 
one table in a statement, or ?

Moritz