[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1862: Corrections GRASS 7.0 help files db.connect and v.db.connect

[Markus Metz]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Paulo van Breugel
<p.vanbreugel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Markus,
>
> OK, as an example, in db.connect, the 'offending' text is under the
> 'Parameter' heading. The default driver name and the default database name
> should change (marked with  >>):
>
> -----------------
>
> driver=name
>
>    Name of database driver
>
>    Options: pg, odbc, mysql, ogr, dbf, sqlite
>
>    >> Default: sqlite
>
> database=name
>
>    Name of database
>
>    >> Default: $GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/sqlite/sqlite.db
>
> schema=name
>
>    Database schema
>
>    Do not use this option if schemas are not supported by driver/database
> server
>
> group=string
>
>    Default group of database users to which select privilege is granted
>
> --------------------
>
>
> Just for my understanding, these parts of the manual page are not in the
> html file
> (http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk/db/db.connect/db.connect.html) and
> I
> assume they are generated / parsed from the actual code? With no
> understanding of the source code (I had a look out of curiosity, but that
> was an exercise in futility), I was wondering how/if I could suggest
> changes
> that would actually be more helpful then just mentioning them like above.

I think the demolocation in the source tree needs to be changed to
sqlite, because db.connect and v.db.connect use
db_get_default_*_name().

Markus M
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paulo
>
>
>
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> On Fri 25 Jan 2013 07:09:56 AM CET, Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>
> Hi Paulo,
>
> not at all. You may post the change suggestions even as email and
> we'll merge them in manually, not too much work in this case.
> I just don't manage to write the better examples myself in this period.
>
> Thanks,
> Markus
>
>
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