[GRASS-SVN] r53172 - grass/branches/develbranch_6/db/drivers/postgres

Wed Sep 12 06:23:47 PDT 2012

Author: neteler
Date: 2012-09-12 06:23:46 -0700 (Wed, 12 Sep 2012)
New Revision: 53172

Modified:
   grass/branches/develbranch_6/db/drivers/postgres/grass-pg.html
Log:
backport of r53166 and r53170

Modified: grass/branches/develbranch_6/db/drivers/postgres/grass-pg.html
===================================================================

--- grass/branches/develbranch_6/db/drivers/postgres/grass-pg.html	2012-09-12 13:22:50 UTC (rev 53171)
+++ grass/branches/develbranch_6/db/drivers/postgres/grass-pg.html	2012-09-12 13:23:46 UTC (rev 53172)
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
 <html>
 <head>
-<title>GRASS-PostgreSQL driver</title>
+<title>GRASS-PostgreSQL DB driver</title>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="grassdocs.css" type="text/css">
 </head>
@@ -11,14 +11,15 @@
 <img src="grass_logo.png" alt="GRASS logo"><hr align=center size=6 noshade>
 
 <!-- meta page description: PostgreSQL driver -->
-<h1>PostgreSQL driver in GRASS</h1>
+<h1>PostgreSQL DB driver in GRASS</h1>
 
-The driver name in GRASS is 'pg'.
+The DB (database) driver name in GRASS is <b>pg</b>.
 
 <h2>Creating a PostgreSQL database</h2>
 
-A new database is created with 'createdb', see the PostgreSQL manual
-for details.
+A new database is created with <tt>createdb</tt>, see
+the <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/">PostgreSQL
+manual</a> for details.
 
 <h2>Connecting GRASS to PostgreSQL</h2>
 
@@ -49,12 +50,10 @@
 be generated as follows in a PostgreSQL table:
 
 <div class="code"><pre>
-echo "
- ALTER TABLE mytable ADD ID integer;
- CREATE SEQUENCE mytable_seq;
- UPDATE mytabe SET ID = nextval('mytable_seq');
- DROP SEQUENCE mytable_seq;
-" | db.execute
+db.execute sql="ALTER TABLE mytable ADD ID integer"
+db.execute sql="CREATE SEQUENCE mytable_seq"
+db.execute sql="UPDATE mytable SET ID = nextval('mytable_seq')"
+db.execute sql="DROP SEQUENCE mytable_seq"
 </pre></div>
 
 
@@ -68,8 +67,9 @@
 
 <h2>Geometry import from PostgreSQL table into GRASS</h2>
 
-<em>v.in.db</em> creates a new vector (points) map from a database table
-containing coordinates. See <a href="v.in.db.html">here</a> for examples.
+<em><a href="v.in.db.html">v.in.db</a></em> creates a new vector
+(points) map from a database table containing
+coordinates. See <a href="v.in.db.html">here</a> for examples.
 
 <h2>PostGIS: PostgreSQL with vector geometry</h2>
 

