Re: [GRASS-user] Why v.extract produces columns of type CHARACTER?

2009-04-03 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de wrote: The columns produces by v.extract are of type CHARACTER and v.dissolve does not like this. It's an old issue. Just for the record: Fixed today (it liked it already unless and empty char field was

Re: [GRASS-user] Why v.extract produces columns of type CHARACTER?

2009-01-14 Thread Glynn Clements
Nikos Alexandris wrote: The columns produces by v.extract are of type CHARACTER and v.dissolve does not like this. It's an old issue. Can someone explain why it becomes CHARACTER since grass' type for strings is varchar? Regards, Nikos Sorry, wrong question - false alarm.

Re: [GRASS-user] Why v.extract produces columns of type CHARACTER?

2009-01-14 Thread maning sambale
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Glynn Clements gl...@gclements.plus.com wrote: Nikos Alexandris wrote: The columns produces by v.extract are of type CHARACTER and v.dissolve does not like this. It's an old issue. Can someone explain why it becomes CHARACTER since grass' type for strings

Re: [GRASS-user] Why v.extract produces columns of type CHARACTER?

2009-01-14 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 14/01/09 10:19, maning sambale wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Glynn Clements gl...@gclements.plus.com wrote: Nikos Alexandris wrote: The columns produces by v.extract are of type CHARACTER and v.dissolve does not like this. It's an old issue. Can someone explain why it becomes

Re: [GRASS-user] Why v.extract produces columns of type CHARACTER?

2009-01-14 Thread maning sambale
IMHO, the best way to deal with attributes in GRASS + SQLite is to do it via the built-in tools in GRASS, and not via the SQLiteBrowser or other tools as this can lead to incompatibilities and confusion. The new wxgui has a very nice interface for attribute and table management. Ahh! Thanks