[GRASS5] Re: question about sqlite

[Markus Neteler]

Radim Blazek wrote:

>On 10/18/05, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> wrote:
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>>Radim,
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>>Could you give me a quick overview of what it means to compile GRASS with
>>sqlite? Here are a couple questions I have.
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>>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?
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>>2) Does it/can it active an sqlite session from within GRASS?
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>>3) Are there other features that I'm not asking about that I should know?
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>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.
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I have updated the db.connect man/html page accordingly in CVS to
reflect the existance of sqlite.

Markus