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

[Glynn Clements]

Jonathan Greenberg wrote:

> 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? 

On a 32-bit system, you will probably be limited to 2GiB for each file
(the coordinate data is usually the largest file).

AFAIK, the --enable-largefile option doesn't currently apply to vector
files.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>