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

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Frank, 

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:53:28 -0400 Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 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.

I would like to see this kind of option in v.[in|out].ogr for GRASS...

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

Does anybody know if something usefull is on someones TODO-list or is
there no need for any developer to implement this feature?

Thanks anyway!


	Stephan

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