[GRASS-dev] Error on attempted read access to a vector map in PERMANENT

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Benjamin Ducke
<benjamin.ducke at oxfordarch.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I just came across an issue with vector maps in the PERMANENT mapset
> and was wondering if anyone else had the same problem.
>
> Whenever I want to get read access to a DBF attribute table for
> a vector file in PERMANENT (while logged into a user mapset),

... to my knowledge, you cannot with the db.* modules.
That's why the v.db.* modules exist, those work also cross-mapset.
I suggest to update the related document(s), e.g.  [1].

Hope this (somewhat) helps,
Markus

[1] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass65/manuals/html65_user/databaseintro.html