[GRASS-user] v.lidar.growing dbmi: Protocol error

[Jack Lonsdale]

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 23:51 +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Jack Lonsdale <lonsdale at unbc.ca> wrote:
> > I am continuing to try and use Grass to process my LiDAR data. However,
> > having completed v.lidar.edgedetect successfully I am unable to complete
> > v.lidar.growing
> >
> > firstly, just to check, the 'first' parameter is the raw dataset? If not
> > how do I create the first return dataset?
> >
> > Secondly, if I run the following:
> > v.lidar.growing input=alrf_subs_edge at lonsdale output=alrf_subs_grow
> > first=alrf_subs_raw tj=0.2 td=0.6
> >
> > All I get is a dbmi:Protocol error, It was impossible to open this
> > table!
> 
> ha! I guess I found the error.
> Please try again *without* specifying the mapset (@lonsdale). If it is
> not in the path, use g.mapsets (-s for GUI) to add it.
> Runs, right?
> 
> The bug is here:
>     sprintf(buf, "SELECT Interp,ID FROM %s_edge_Interpolation",
> in_opt->answer);
>     db_append_string(&sql, buf);
> 
> in_opt->answer contains (in your case) the @mapset part which causes
> the DBMI engine to crash. So that should be easy to fix in the module.
> 
> @devs: how to strip off the mapset part of a name? Don't remember...
> 
> Markus

Brilliant! Works now. Thanks so much,

Jack