[GRASS-user] Associating attributes from Postgres file with a key other than cat

[Daniel Victoria]

Use db.select to set your database and then v.db.connect to link the
cat in the vector data to the postgres DB

Cheers
Daniel

On 8/8/07, Turner, James <James.Turner at kronos.com> wrote:
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> Ok, next dumb question that the documentation didn't seem to help with
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> I have the Census ZCTA data loaded up "locally" (not in a database), and
> some proprietary zip-code based data in a Postgres DB table.  The Postgres
> data is keyed off the zip code, and obviously knows nothing about the cat #s
> of the imported e00 file with the ZCTA data.  Is there any non-trivial way
> to make the values in the Postgres table available to GRASS so that I can
> use it to do coloring of areas, etc.
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> And yes, I know that ZCTA <> Zip Code, but it's close enough for this
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> James M. Turner
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