[GRASS5] v.out.ogr, OVERWRITE=YES

[Frank Warmerdam]

Stephan Holl wrote:
> Dear developers,
> 
> after fiddeling around with v.out.ogr writing to a PostGIS-DB I
> realised, that it is not possible to "update" an existing dataset in
> PostGIS.
> ogr2ogr has the -update-switch, which allows to update
> datasets with the same name (giving aditionally -lco OVERWRITE=YES).
> 
> Would it be possible to add this switch also to v.out.ogr to update
> existing datasets in PostGIS?

Folks,

For effective use of OGR, you will need a way of passing user supplied
dataset and layer creation options (-dsco and -lco in ogr2ogr).   Likewise
something similar to the ogr2ogr -update and -append flags would be useful.

> My workaround is exporting to shape and then using ogr2ogr as written
> above, but a straitforward import in PG would be nice too :-)
> 
> Thanks for any comments in this.
> 
> Cheers
> 	Stephan Holl
> 
> btw, are the ogr-driver specific documentations for -lco-parameters in
> ogr2ogr somewhere?

Format driver specific parameters are only documented in the format web pages.

Best regards,
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