Fwd: Re: [GRASS-user] v.external and POSTGIS

[Gustavo Martínez]

Hello,

I forgot to mention that I've tried QGIS from inside GRASS and I had no  
problem in accessing the same data.

Gustavo

> Gustavo Martínez <gumartin at mecon.gov.ar>, [20070215 - 12:11:13]
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm starting with POSTGIS and GRASS and I have some problems with
>> v.external.
>> My computer is running Debian 'testing' AMD64 with GRASS 6.2.0,
>> Postgresql 8.1 and Postgis 1.1.6, all from debian packages.
>> On Postgres, I have a table named vms with column geometry storing
>> POINTS. If I connect from GRASS to the database the connection is
>> successful:
>>
>> db.tables driver=pg database=host=localhost,dbname=pesca
>> 	public.geometry_columns
>> 	public.spatial_ref_sys
>> 	public.vms
>>
>> When I use v.external:
>>
>> v.external dsn='PG:host=localhost user=gumartin dbname=pesca'
>> output=pp layer=vms
>>
>> 	Cannot open data source
>>
>> Can anybody help me with this? What am I doing wrong?
>


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