[GRASS-dev] d.vect.thematic fails if db.connect and v.db.connect are different

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:30:41AM +0200, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, but when I have a location 
> for which I have set a database connection with db.connect, and then set 
> a different database connection for one vector map with v.db.connect, 
> d.vect.thematic looks for the vector map attributes in the database 
> defined by db.connect:
> 
> GRASS 6.1.0RC1 (spearfish60):~ > db.connect -p
> driver:pg
> database:belgique
> schema:(null)
> group:(null)
> 
> GRASS 6.1.0RC1 (spearfish60):~ > v.db.connect -p fields
> Vector map <fields> is connected by:
> layer <1> table <fields> in database 
> </home/mlennert/GRASS/DATA/spearfish60/PERMANENT/dbf/> through driver 
> <dbf> with key <cat>
> 
> 
> DBMI-Postgres driver error:
> Cannot connect to Postgres: FATAL:  la base de données 
> «/home/mlennert/GRASS/DATA/spearfish60/PERMANENT/dbf/» n'existe pas
> (meaning the database does not exist)
 
Moritz,

the best way to figure out what's happening is to
edit d.vect.thematic in the GISBASE/scripts/ and to
add -x there in the #!/bin/sh line:

#!/bin/sh -x

Then it will print all executed commands and variable values
step by step.

Markus