Re: [Pkg-grass-general] GRASS: how to learn the database language?

[Markus Neteler <neteler@itc.it>]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:46:37AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> In GRASS I saw an example and was able to do it:
> $ echo "select * from largeB" | db.select
> What Debian package should I download to learn about this language?
> At this point all I can do is grope in the dark:
> $ echo "select 2 from largeB" | db.select #fails
> 

It's SQL. Note that GRASS does NOT come with a full
SQL implementation.

See for example:
 g.manual sql
 g.manual db.select
 g.manual db.execute
 g.manual d.vect

Markus