[GRASS-user] Trouble with v.db.join and sqlite

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
> Moritz Lennert wrote:
...
>> > (Hopefully) fixed in 6.4.develbranch and 7.trunk.
>>
>> Do I understand correctly that the patch ignores the column if the name
>> already exists ? Wouldn't it be more "user-friendly" to rename it ?
>
> I don't know about "user-friendly", but it would be safer to just
> abort with an error if the column already exists.
>
> If you're going to replace the contents of an existing column, you
> should only do so if --overwrite is given.

Sounds reasonable.
It would be good if someone adds both error abort and --overwrite
flag in that script.

Markus