[GRASS-dev] v.in.ogr realloc problem

[Markus Metz]

Yann Chemin wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> (GRASS SVN of this morning)
> Importing a vector of 400Mb (GADM <http://biogeo.berkeley.edu/gadm/>,
> country level only)
> v.in.ogr broke with the following error message:
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Break polygons:
> ERROR: G_realloc: unable to allocate 652680036 bytes at break_polygons.c:188
> (Wed Feb 25 10:54:21 2009) Command finished (2163 sec)
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> The Desktop PC has 8Gb RAM with Debian Sid (sidux) updated this morning too...
> Any idea how I could let the memory allocation do its job?
>   
Same like ticket #494?
I got this shapefile 
<http://biogeo.berkeley.edu/gadm/data/gadm_v0dot9_shp.zip> and imported 
the whole thing, all levels, with v.in.ogr, grass65. No problems. 
Cleaning with v.in.ogr was successful, result is a topologically clean 
vector. I could not reproduce the error.

The G_realloc() error in Vect_break_polygons() remains a mystery.

Sorry for no help,

Markus M