[GRASS5] Re: question about sqlite

Radim Blazek radim.blazek at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 04:22:09 EDT 2005


On 10/18/05, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> wrote:
> Radim,
>
> Could you give me a quick overview of what it means to compile GRASS with
> sqlite? Here are a couple questions I have.
>
> 1) Is it simply a driver that lets GRASS recognize a database/table created
> by sqlite in an active sqlite session started in another process, like a
> Postgresql table in an active Postgresql session?
>
> 2) Does it/can it active an sqlite session from within GRASS?
>
> 3) Are there other features that I'm not asking about that I should know?

The sqlite driver works like any other db driver (dbf, pg, mysql, odbc).
You can use an existing database or create a new one from GRASS.
Just set the driver and database file with db.connect and all new
attribute tables will be created in that database.

Radim

> Thanks
> Michael
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