[GRASS-user] Re: Overcoming Error in v.in.e00

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:

> dbf can only have 8 characters as column name.
> try a sql database as vector database backend:

Helmut,

   I'm trying to use postgres for all vector map attributes and have read
everything in the on-line docs several times.

   What I'm finding is that when I import a new map (such as the waterbody
.e00 that started this thread) the attributes end up in a .dbf table rather
than a new postgres table. Therefore, I need to straighten out the contents
of the dot-files: ~/.grasslogin64, ~/.grassrc6, and ~/.grasswx6.

   I'm running -6.5svn, and I see what appears to be overlapping and
conflicting information in the first two dot-files. For the two large
spatial analyses projects I have two postgres databases, each with its own
set of tables.

   ~/.grasslogin64 has the results of db.connect and db.login for both
databases. ~/.grassrc6 has the GISDBASE, LOCATION_NAME, MAPSET, DEBUG,
MONITOR, and GRASS_GUI for one of the two projects.

   What should be in both of these dot-files? And, do I duplicate the project
information in .grassrc6 for the second project?

Rich