[GRASSLIST:9292] Re: number of rows in a table?

[Maciek Sieczka]

On nie, 2005-12-04 at 09:24 -0600, Kirk Wythers wrote: 
> I need to find the number of rows in a table. I have some vector  
> files that crash qgis

Aren't them 3D shapefiles by any chance? These are not supported in
QGIS. I have had such a problem - QGIS crashing instead of saying "3D
shapefile not supported". Reported to QGIS crew but no reply yet.

Just a wild guess.

If this is not the case, please report your issue in Qgis bugtracker.

> , yet grass opens them fine. Looking at the dbf  
> files, I suspect the the issue is the file size (20 - 30 MB). I  
> wanted to check the number of rows and I've been looking through the  
> db commands, unfortunately, so far all I have come across is using  
> using db.describe to get the number of columns. Any suggestions?

Don't know what Grass command but dbview will do.

Maciek


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