[GRASSLIST:6174] Re: PostGRASS in 5.7 tutorial ?

[Radim Blazek]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi Jean-Denis,
> 
> I have added this note on top of the old tutorial:
> 
> NOTE: This tutorial is refering to GRASS 5.7. Meanwhile (2005), GRASS 6.0.0
> has been published. An updated (but unfortunately still incomplete) version
> of this tutorial is available here: GRASS Six Tutorial.
> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/twiki/bin/view/GRASS/GrassSixTutorial
> 
> I still have to migrate parts of the old tutorial into the Wiki.
> 
> Answering your question: The direct PostGIS connection is no
> longer available. Once day, when OGR comes with a GRASS plugin
> for vector data, this will probably change. 
> 
> For now you can use v.in.ogr and v.out.ogr to directly exchange
> data with PostGIS. But it's an exchange, no real link into the DB.

It is possible to make the 'link' to any OGR layer (i.e. also PostGIS) 
with v.external, but attributes with PostGIS work only if FID exists.

Radim


> Hope this helps
> 
>  Markus
> 
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:10:02AM -0500, Jean-Denis Giguere wrote:
> 
>>Hi list !
>>
>>Do you know what happen with the tutorial about using postgrass driver 
>>to store vectors within postgis ? There is many references to 
>>http://grass.itc.it/grass57/tutorial/geom_storage.html#PostGRASS in 
>>documentation but the section doesn't exist anymore.
>>
>>In fact, it exists always but have been commented (!?) So you can read 
>>the section in page source code...
>>
>>Any explanations ?
>>
>>Greetings,
>>
>>-- 
>>Jean-Denis Giguère
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