[GRASSLIST:7259] Re: db.droptable

[David Finlayson]

I have been learning the GRASS SQL commands and don't fully understand
why there are individual commands for some SQL statements and not
others (for example why not just have db.execute?). In fact, I have
found some SELECT statements don't work in db.execute but do work in
db.select. This seems a bit confusing to me.

David

On 6/21/05, Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> On Tue, June 21, 2005 18:40, Aldo Clerici said:
> > Dear GRASSusers,
> > does it exist the db.droptable command?
> > It is described in the GRASS GIS Reference Manual and in many tutorials, but
> > it seems not to exist in my GRASS version (6.1.cvs).
> 
> Currently it does not exist. The recommended way of dropping a table is:
> 
> echo "DROP TABLE fmacopy" | db.execute
> 
> However, it wouldn't be too difficult to create a db.droptable if there is
> real demand.
> 
> Moritz
> 
> 


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