[GRASS-user] I'm in a hole and want to stop digging, [SOLVED]

[Richard Chirgwin]

On 28/07/11 8:18 AM, grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:24:45 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rich Shepard<rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] I'm in a hole and want to stop digging
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> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
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>> >  My approach - I use MySQL but don't see why this would not work in pg - is to
>> >  associate a schema to a mapset. So if I want PERMANENT and Project, over in
>> >  MySQL I might run:
>> >  create database Master
>> >  create database Project
> Richard,
>
>     When I stepped back to look at the forest instead of the individual trees
> I appreciate that I should have understood this; except I've not before
> worked with an external database. Mea culpa!
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>     Since each mapset has it's own dbf/ directory for GRASS-internal vector
> attributes, each mapset needs it's own external database, too.
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>     g.copy now works.
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> Thank you,
>
> Rich
Rich,

My pleasure. I remember how much pain the database parameters caused me, 
when I was learning both Grass-GIS and MySQL at the same time!

Cheers,
Richard Chirgwin