[GRASS-user] Export To PostGIS (with attributes)

[Hamish]

Moritz Lennert wrote:
> There is a fundamental difference between the PostGIS format
> which is non-topological and the internal GRASS format which is
> topological and which, thus, does not really allow for overlapping
> polygons. You can digitize them, but they are not really useful...
> 
> > I was hoping that all the processing could have been
> > done in GRASS rather.
> 
> You cannot directly process a PostGIS table in GRASS. GRASS has its own 
> internal vector format. If you want to do everything in GRASS, you have 
> to stop after step 2. You can link a GRASS layer to a PostgreSQL table, 
> though.

I just added that to a new PostGIS wiki page, it would be great if findings could be summarized there by an expert.

 http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/PostGIS


Hamish