[GRASS-user] Importing vector points

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Markus Metz
<markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The id values in the input are too large, e.g. 251241080385301, this
> causes integer overflow, categories will be negative which is invalid,
> thus points appear to have no category.

I darkly remember some discussion about the (non)possibility of
catching such issues but don't recall the output.
So: is there a way to inform the user about ID values in the input
being too large?

markusN