[GRASS-user] Random read is not supported by OGR for this layer

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Steve Smith <ssteve52 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I trying to use v.external to access data in a postgres-postgis database.
> While GRASS builds the topology, I get the following message:
>
> Random read is not supported by OGR for this layer, cannot build support.
>
> I've found a discussion on this message in the mail list archive:
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> http://www.mail-archive.com/grassuser@grass.itc.it/msg00882.html
>
> has a patch been created for this bug that works?

Frank Warmerdam suggested to me in IRC to open a bug report in the GDAL trac
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/
(unfortunately the user didn't follow up in 2007, so no patch yet)

Please send the trac report URL to me then that I stay in the loop.

Markus