Quick trick to try then is to open the dbf with OpenOffice you'll see
the column specs is the 1st line with the column name. Just change the 5
to an 8. Or do the copy method you mentioned.
I've never seen another way to easily do it. You should think about
changing to sqlite though, I was under this impression that it was the
default for 6.3
Alex
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Alex,
dbf; just the default for a generic vector file. I should have added more
detail, such as that I am using GRASS 6.3 on Linux.
Thanks,
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:55 pm
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Trying to rename a column
Thomas Adams wrote:
List:
Ultimately what I am trying to do is to make a varchar(5) field
be a
varchar(8) field — but I don't see how to do this directly. So, I
thought if I created a new varchar(8) column, copied the values
of the
varchar(5) column into it (This all worked fine); then, renamed
the
varchar(5) column to 'foo' (which also worked), then I could
rename the
varchar(8) column to what the column name was for the original
varchar(5) column — this does NOT work. Also, I would like to
delete the
'foo' column, but I don't see how to do this.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Tom
What's the data backend you're using? dbf, sqlite, postgis?
Alex
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