[winGRASS] v.db.addcol

[Moritz Lennert]

Nicola,

On 06/11/07 19:47, Nicola Zoppetti wrote:
> 
> In the folder
> $GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/.tmp/
> three temporary dbf files are created,
> one with the 'a' column added, one with the 'b' column added and the last
> one with the 'c' column added.
> 
> It happens exactly the same if I directly use the db.execute command:
> echo "ALTER TABLE ed7m3uT ADD COLUMN a double" | db.execute
> echo "ALTER TABLE ed7m3uT ADD COLUMN b double" | db.execute
> echo "ALTER TABLE ed7m3uT ADD COLUMN c double" | db.execute
> 
> If I manually add the three columns to the dbf table and I try to fill the
> empty fields with the v.to.db command, once again a temporary table in the
> .tmp folder is correctly created and filled but the table linked to the
> features, in the folder 'dbf' of the mapset, remains unchanged.
> 
> Is there something that doesn't work as it should or I'm doing something
> wrong??

No, I can confirm that problem. You apparently discovered a 
window-related bug in db.execute.  I'll look into it.

Thank you very much for reporting.

Moritz