[GRASS-user] db.? to change column names

[Moritz Lennert]

On 31/08/18 16:46, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
>> Maybe this helps: it allows to rename a column in the attribute table
>> connected to a given vector map:
>> https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/manuals/v.db.renamecolumn.html
> 
> Markus,
> 
>     Yes, it would help.
> 
>     Because I wanted to modify the database I looked at the db.* modules and
> didn't think to look for any v.db.* modules. I know about v.to.db, but did
> not consider that a strictly database manipulation would be a vector
> command.
> 
>     Would it be helpful (and practical) to put (in this case) a "See also:
> vector commands" section at the bottom of each module category page that
> would point to applicable alternatives? Perhaps even suggesint looking for
> extension modules.

db.* = modules for generic database manipulation, including on tables 
that are not linked to vector maps

v.db.* = modules that manipulate an attribute table of a vector map

Moritz