[GRASS5] Column-names of FeatureID in OGR

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Radim, 

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:09:54 +0100 Radim Blazek
<radim.blazek at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/14/05, Stephan Holl <holl at gdf-hannover.de> wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > I can remember a former discussion about the column-nameings for the
> > different OGR-drivers. Currently GRASS cycles through 3 different
> > FID-namings (FID, ogc_fid, ogr_fid) and trys to link the attributes
> > (see $GRASSBASE/lib/vector/Vlib/fields.c:395)
> >
> > I need to connect to a oracle-database with v.external where the
> > Feature-IDs are named different than the 3 tried columns.
> > Consequently v.extrenal fails.
> >
> > Is there a chance that a user can specify the FID-column-name on
> > the command-line? This would be very handy, otherwise I need to add
> > another column to the oracle-tables which is named ether FID,
> > ogc_fid or ogr_fid.
> >
> > What would be the best solution for this?
> > What do you think?
> 
> The best solution is a new method in OGR which gives FID column name.
> Frank already promissed to add it . Please fill OGR bug and try to
> increase priority.

Thats what I was thinking about. Do you have the thread at hand? I
could not find it anywhere...

I will fill a bug in OGRs bugzilla then.

Best
	Stephan


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