[GRASS-user] Question about databases and vector files...

[Jonathan Greenberg]

As I said -- lots of newbie questions here (I'm a raster man, just now
beginning to learn the intricacies of vector files beyond "hey, it's a bunch
of points") -- is there any inherent size limitation for vector files (the
geometry portion) in grass?  E.g. should I be fine with the points I've
described if I use the pg to deal with the database portion, as opposed to
the standard dbf driver?

--j

-----Original Message-----
From: Moritz Lennert [mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be] 
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:33 AM
To: Jonathan Greenberg
Cc: grassuser at grass.itc.it
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Question about databases and vector files...

On 26/04/07 17:09, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> Hmm, good question -- mostly I'm wondering about the use of v.in.ogr for a
> huge shapefile (3 million + points with about 6 attributes per point) --
the
> dbf driver seems to either stall or crash (depending on the installation
of
> grass) -- if I establish pg as the driver, will it use pg to import as
well?

To import the attribute data, yes, but not the geometries. These are 
always imported into the native GRASS vector format.

Moritz