NAME

db.databases - Lists all databases for a given driver and location.

KEYWORDS

database, attribute table, SQL

db.databases
db.databases --help
db.databases [driver=name] [location=name] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

driver=name: Name of database driver
Options: dbf, ogr, pg, sqlite
Default: sqlite
location=name: Location
Path for SQLite driver, or connection string for PostgreSQL driver

db.databases lists all databases for a given driver and optionally location.

Currently supported database drivers are SQLite, PostgreSQL, and ODBC.

Default location for SQLite driver is the full path for the current mapset. For PostgreSQL driver it’s empty connection string.

List SQLite databases in the current mapset:


db.databases driver=sqlite

List SQLite databases in a given directory:


db.databases driver=sqlite location=/opt/sqlite

List PostgreSQL databases from database server running on given port:


db.databases driver=pg location="host=server_name port=5333"

Radim Blazek, ITC-Irst, Trento, Italy
Updated for GRASS 7 by Martin Landa, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Available at: db.databases source code (history)