[GRASS-user] Why v.extract produces columns of type "CHARACTER"?

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 03:59 +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> The columns produces by v.extract are of type "CHARACTER" and v.dissolve
> does not like this. It's an "old" issue. Can someone explain why it
> becomes CHARACTER since grass' type for strings is "varchar"?
> 
> Regards, Nikos

Sorry, wrong question - false alarm.

Actually, the *real* question I have asked in the past but never really
got a reply is: why "sqlitebrowser" reports the columns as "varchar"
while db.describe reports (in grass-shell) the same columns to be of
type "CHARACTER"?