[GRASS5] [bug #4250] (grass) v.out.ogr: CHAR columns are trimmed to 80 chars when writing shp

[Maciek Sieczka via RT]

Hamish wrote:

> what does 'dbview -e' say about the dbf coulumns before and after export?


### the dbf BEFORE export

$ dbview -e /home/grassdata/caves_utm33/wlasnosc2/dbf/test.dbf

Field Name      Type    Length  Decimal Pos
Cat               N        11       0
Parcel no         C        80       0
Maps use          C        80       0
Maps class        C        80       0
Maps cover        C        20       0
Owner cod         N        11       0
Owner nam         C       249       0
Owner nmb         N        11       0
Owner loc         C        80       0
Tenant cod        N        11       0
Tenant nam        C        80       0
Tenant loc        C        80       0
Host cod          N        11       0
Area              N        20       6
Lndrcl lev        N        11       0
Lndrcl clt        N        11       0



### the dbf AFTER export

$ dbview -e /home/john/test/test.dbf

Field Name      Type    Length  Decimal Pos
Cat               N        11       0
Parcel no         C        80       0
Maps use          C        80       0
Maps class        C        80       0
Maps cover        C        80       0
Owner cod         N        11       0
Owner nam         C        80       0
Owner nmb         N        11       0
Owner loc         C        80       0
Tenant cod        N        11       0
Tenant nam        C        80       0
Tenant loc        C        80       0
Host cod          N        11       0
Area              N        24      15
Lndrcl lev        N        11       0
Lndrcl clt        N        11       0

### Interesting is that the "Area" attribute properties changed too, isn't
### that wrong?

> what if you just copy the $MAPSET/dbf/ file to be with your .shp file?

If I do that, the relationship between objects in the shapefile and dbf file
is lost. Querries in QGIS prove that. Apparently the dbf is somewhat processed
 by v.out.ogr when writing a shapefile.

Maciek

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