[GRASS-user] Re: v.out.ogr: Convert Attribute Database?

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:

> v.out.ogr input=polygons type=area \
>          dsn="PG:host=localhost dbname=postgis user=postgres" \
>          olayer=polymap format=PostgreSQL

> missing format definition?

Helmut,

   Er, looks like I did forget the format definition.

> what I would do (a very lazy way):
>
> - create a new mapset
> - using db.connect (Prints/sets general DB connection for current mapset and
> exits.) to define postgres as the mapset database backend
> - g.copy surface_h2o to the new mapset and the attribute table should be
> automagically in the postgres

   I'll give this a try. I can then delete the original map and copy the new
one back to the project mapset.

   Will let everyone know how this works.

Thanks,

Rich