David, a subsequent mail contains a workaround: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2007-August/040869.html
I am not sure how to deal with it. Indeed, it would be better to track it in http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ Markus On Feb 2, 2008 10:27 PM, David Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am trying to setup a read-only link to a postGIS database in GRASS. > I'm doing this because I often change the data using pgAdmin3 and other > tools and do not want to keep importing into GRASS (does this make > sense?) > > I get the following error: > > GRASS 6.2.2 (Israel-Palestine):~ > v.external dsn="PG:host=localhost > user=davideps dbname=hebrew_spatial" layer=gushtable output=pg_gush > Building topology ... > WARNING: Random read is not supported by OGR for this layer, cannot > build support. > > This was reported by another user in August 2007 and the comment (pasted > below) was that it is an OGR driver error. However, the user reported > that the patch did not work. Has this problem been addressed? (Or > perhaps I caused the error somehow?) > > thank you, > -david > > > On review of the OGR PostGIS driver I think this is a bug in the > > driver's > > "TestCapabilities" method. Are you in a position to rebuild your GDAL > > with > > a patch? I'd appreciate your filing a bug against GDAL/OGR for this > > issue, > > and we can pursue the discussion there. > > > > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ > > > > Best regards, > > -- > > ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------- > > ------ > > I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam > > and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, > > http://osgeo.org > > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user > -- Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ http://www.grassbook.org/ _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
