[GRASS-user] v.to.rast with text column

[Hamish]

Dylan wrote:
> One small note-- I noticed that the operation takes MUCH
> longer to complete when the labelcolumn argument is specified.
...
> Something in v.to.rast was causing the postgresql instance to peg
> the CPU at 100% when specifying a labelcolumn. 
> This was for a rather large vector conversion, about 410520
> features.

a wild guess would be that it is opening and closing the DB connection
for each feature or similar.

maybe I am missing something, but why not just do: "v.to.rast use=cat
labelcolumn=name" ?


Hamish