[GRASSLIST:812] Re: postgres connection

[Radim Blazek]

On Friday 25 July 2003 16:32, mdeneen at japple.org wrote:
> The reason I want to go straight to postgres is because when I try to
> import using dbf, the dbf process grows up to 1000 megs before I kill it.
> I don't know if I have enough memory to import the CompleteChain layer.
>
> Is this something that will definately require a lot of memory?
>
> -M
>
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 mdeneen at japple.org wrote:
> > How do I set up grass 5.1 so that v.in.ogr will import the data into a
> > postgres table?  I have found several tutorials, but they all deal with
> > taking existing grass data and inserting it into a database.
> >
> > I'm sure it's simple, but I couldn't find the grass 5.1 documentation for
> > it.
> >
> > -M

You can define driver/database by v.database driver=name database=name,
but the database must exist before (it is not created by GRASS).

Dbf driver creates table in the memory and writes it to disk when driver
is closed, it may be also some memory leakage there. 
Do you have a large layer? How many features? I worry that postgres 
will be too slow for large data sets. 

Radim