[GRASS5] connecting a table to a view in pg driver

[Radim Blazek]

On 9/14/05, Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Is it possible to connect a map to a view in postgres ? I get :
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> > v.db.connect -o bxlgdsec table=vespvie
> WARNING: Table <vespvie> does not exist in database <grass>
> WARNING: The table <vespvie> is now part of vector map <bxlgdsec>
> and may be deleted or overwritten by GRASS modules.
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> Does this mean it is not possible, or that I am doing something wrong ?

It is only warning, the connection is created.
 
> Moritz
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> P.S. Is it a bug or a feature that v.db.connect registers the
> connection to a nonexisting table ? Shouldn't it fail and leave the
> settings as before the command ?

No, it is feature, GRASS always does what you want, only if 
it seems to be strange, it prints a warning. Thanks to this feature
you can work with view.

The bug is, that it does not check also available views.

Radim