Andreas, I agree with you. I actually have postgresql installed on my mac. But this would just be a temporary vector file (an input to a satellite classification). So I am looking (if there are) ways just to make it usable for now. I might consider postgis if all quick and dirty efforts would be fruitless
cheers, maning On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Andreas Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With this many records I would seriously consider moving to a professional > database, such as PostgreSQL/Postgis or Oracle Spatial. Both should run on a > Mac. Postgis is of course easier to install and maintain than Oracle. It is > also cheaper. > > Andreas > > maning sambale wrote: >> >> Just finished installing macports gnumeric and it does have the 65K row >> limit >> >> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:56 PM, maning sambale >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for that tip. I'm installing from macports now. >>> But I read somewhere that: GNUmeric could accept more than 256 columns >>> and more of 65000 rows (needs to be re-compiled) >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Nikos Alexandris >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 16:38 +0800, maning sambale wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> My usual workflow is like this: >>>>> >>>>> All my vectors are in GRASS database and I view them with QGIS. >>>>> For editing vector attributes, I basically browse the GRASS vectors in >>>>> QGIS then edit the dbf attributes with OpenOffice calc or base. >>>>> So far so good. This time I have a vector with more than 100K >>>>> records. Editing with calc is not possible (hitting the limit of 65K >>>>> rows) and its painstakingly slow in OO base. >>>> >>>> Can you use Gnumeric? It's faster and limitless :-) ...ok, maybe no >>>> limitless but reads bigger files than OOo >>>>> >>>>> I'm looking for ways to speed things up. I cannot find a decent dbf >>>>> editor for mac. Any ideas? >>>>> >>>>> cheers, >>>>> maning >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| >>> | __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great." -Yoda | >>> | '-._"7' |"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden| >>> | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | >>> | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com| >>> | _)_/LI >>> |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| >>> >> >> >> > > -- > > -- > Andreas Neumann > Böschacherstrasse 6 > CH-8624 Grüt (Gossau ZH) > Switzerland > Phone: ++41-44-2736668 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Web: http://www.carto.net/neumann/ > SVG Examples: http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/ > SVG.Open: http://www.svgopen.org/ > -- |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| | __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great." -Yoda | | '-._"7' |"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden| | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com| | _)_/LI |---------|----------------------------------------------------------|
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