[GRASS5] [bug #2976] (grass) db.select in GRASS 6.0.0beta1

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:14:46PM +0100, Request Tracker wrote:
> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=2976
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> 
> Subject: db.select in GRASS 6.0.0beta1
> 
> the options of the SQL select statement are limitated? I would like to 
> select of one field of a table and to add these valors with "SUM" but it 
> doesn't works, I write: 
>  
> db.select -c sql="select sum(AREA) from parcela" 
>  
> and I obtain an error in  SQL parser statement... 
>  
> Somebody can help me? 

What does

 v.db.connect -p parcela

say? 
 
The dbf driver functionality is limited (maybe we should change to
sqlite one day?).

Markus