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

[Moritz Lennert]

On 13/05/09 14:28, Markus Neteler wrote:
> 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.

AFAIK, you can. The problem is that db.* modules use the mapset database 
definition by default, but if you explicitely set the databse= parameter 
to point to the dbf directory in PERMANENT, you should be able to access 
the data.

Moritz