[gdal-dev] Updating shapefile "fields" name with ogr2ogr

Hermann Peifer peifer at gmx.eu
Thu Jun 21 23:03:24 PDT 2012


On 2012-06-20 19:50, Even Rouault wrote:
>
> I know this is going to sound a bit counter-intutive at first...
>
> ogrinfo opens datasources in read/write mode by default...

Just out of curiosity: why does an ...info tool use read/write mode by 
default? One would expect that it only needs to *read* some info in the 
data source?

Hermann


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