[GRASS-dev] G70: Link to PG database issue (wxGUI)

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2014-05-25 12:24 GMT+02:00 Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>:
>
> [...]
>
>> While this is now working also here, in terms of the original issue I
>> wonder if it is needed to switch the DB settings for the mapset when
>> "only" trying to link to one PostGIS vector map (so a kind of mixed
>> use).
>
> running `db.login` doesn't mean that you switch DB settings. It just
> allows you to defined user/password for given driver, nothing else.

ok, good! I got confused by the actual manual of db.login:

"DESCRIPTION

db.login sets the user name and optionally also a password for the
connection to the selected database through the DB driver.
"

This should be expanded (good wording welcome).

Markus