[GRASS-user] Problems with v.external

[Hans-Jörg Keiler]

Hi Andreas,

I had a similar problem (same error message) with postgis data, using 
"v.out.ogr".
Don't know why I changed the position of the first quote from

... dsn='PG:host=localhost dbname=nrw2005 user=postgres' ...
to
... 'dsn=PG:host=localhost dbname=nrw2005 user=postgres' ...
But then it worked.

Regards,

Hajo


Andreas Neumann schrieb:
> see comments below:
>
>   
>> Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>     
>>> I am trying to use postgis datasets read-only using v.external. However,
>>> I
>>> am having problems. Here is my command:
>>>
>>> v.external dsn="PG:host=localhost dbname=uster user=an password=mypw"
>>> layer=natur.naturnahe_gaerten output=gaerten
>>>
>>> And here is my error message:
>>>
>>> Sorry, <dbname> is not a valid parameter
>>> Sorry, <user> is not a valid parameter
>>> Sorry, <password> is not a valid parameter
>>>
>>> I expected to run into problems with schemas, maybe, but not with the
>>> login. What am I doing wrong in the dsn parameters?
>>>       
>> For some reason the "quotes" are being removed from your command and so
>> the PG:
>> settings are being treated as command line parameters to v.external. As
>> v.external doesn't have those options, you get the error message from the
>> GRASS
>> command line parser.
>>     
>
> yes, this seems to be the case. Any ideas on why the quotes are removed? I
> compiled against a nightly version of gdal, somewhere between 1.4.3 and
> 1.5. I can try with 1.5 again.
>
> Andreas
>
>   


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