[GRASS-dev] sqlite and grass64
William Kyngesburye
woklist at kyngchaos.com
Sun Jan 13 18:07:21 EST 2008
On Jan 13, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:
>> AFAIU SQLite (by default) stores the DBs for all vector maps in a
>> single file per mapset. This makes it hard to share individual vector
>> maps and may have LFS issues when your data + mapset gets to be huge.
>> (??)
>
> It probably wouldn't be hard to modify the SQLite DBMI driver to allow
> one file per map (like for DBF), but then you lose the ability to
> perform joins (OTOH, if you're using DBF, you never had this ability
> in the first place).
>
I also like the idea of one db file per map. But I didn't know about
the join problem (I can see joins being useful). Perhaps a db extract
command can be added for when one wants to isolate a map's files?
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