[GRASS5] Re: grass57 and 3D import

[Hamish]

> > The motivation is that v.in.sites currently doesn't make a table 
> 
> Realy?


Nope.

I could have sworn last time I tried this it didn't work. 
Oh well, never mind.



>> 1. How do I create a new column in a table within a dbf file? Is it
>> possible through GRASS? Or should I just use a seperate tool?
>
> echo "alter table xxx add column yyy double precision" | db.execute

I see that is already in the db.execute help page;

Is it possible to rename a column after it is created?

Should we have a DB howto page in addition to the existing SQL howto
help page?


Re. broken man page generation; I see that most of the database
commands are breaking the script (if that helps the debugging):
  http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass57/manuals/html57_user/database.html



Hamish