On Feb 7, 2008 4:47 PM, Dr. Manuel Seeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > I found a small bug in v.db.renamecol > > working on dbf- database driver, renaming a column, if (like I made) you > try to use a column name greater than 10 characters length, then it > gives an error warning, and creates a column with the new name (cut at > the end to fit 10 char), but does not fill in the column values, and(!) > deletes the old column. > This is: column data is lost!
That's bad! Fixed: v.db.renamecol myarchsites co=str1,abcdefghijk ERROR: Column name too long <abcdefghijk>: the DBF driver only supports up to 10 characters as column name. http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/30007 (also fixed in 6.3 rel.branch). markus _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user