WG: [GRASS-user] OGR Import Error for shapes with Fieldtype DATE

[Frank Warmerdam]

Düster Horst wrote:
> Column type not supported (NEW_DATE)
> 
> Column type not supported (ARCHIVE_DA)
> DBMI-DBF driver error:
> Incompatible value type.
> Error in db_execute_immediate()
> 
> 
> The reason of this error seems to be the fields NEW_DATE and ARCHIVE_DA.
> These two fields are of type DATE. The same problem appears with the ogr
> Import functionality og QGIS 0.8. Datatype DATE is an approved type for ESRI
> Shapefiles.
> 
> Is it a known bug? Does exists a suitable workaround?

Duster,

I suspect that the OGR interface code in GRASS needs to either add explicit
handling of OGR date fields (a recent addition for GDAL/OGR 1.3.2) or it needs
to at least treat them as string fields, which is essentially what happened
before I think.

Best regards,
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