[GRASS-dev] v.in.ogr broken (\w shp)

[Helena Mitasova]

On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:30 AM, Hamish wrote:

> Helena:
>>> it is one more reason to change the default DBMS in future (GRASS7?)
>
> Michael:
>> I'd vote for in GRASS 6.3 if it's doable.
>
> ... and SQLite is probably the only alternative to DBF that is simple
> enough not to cause undue installation headaches for new users.
>
> discussed this recently,
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/14634/
>
> As William's points out there, all vector attributes are stored in one
> file per mapset. This is problematic for:
>  - backups or easy transfer of a single map to another system
>  - disk error etc would trash all vectors in mapset, not just the  
> one map
>  - with many vector maps in the same mapset 32bit users will  
> rapidly hit
>    the 2gb file size limit.

Isn't there a better alternative? This does not sound good at all.

Helena
>
> Is per-map $MAPSET/vector/$MAPNAME/sqlite.db (or similar) possible?
>
>
> Hamish