PostGIS data provider in GRASS 7

PostGIS data can be accessed in GRASS 7 using GRASS-OGR data provider or preferably by native GRASS-PostGIS data provider. Note that GRASS-OGR data provider supports only simple feature access.

Development of PostGIS data provider has been supported by ​Fondazione Edmund Mach and ​Comune di Trento (Italy).

This data provider allows GRASS to read (see read_pg.c​) and write (see write_pg.c​) PostGIS data directly without any external library (like in the case of GRASS-OGR data provider). GRASS-PostGIS data provider is implemented using ​libpq library.

Note that GRASS-PostGIS data provider is compiled only when GRASS is configured with --with-postgres switch.

Simple features access

GRASS-PostGIS provider allows to read PostGIS data stored as simple features on level 1 (without topology) and on level 2 (with pseudo-topology). See the table bellow for overview of the relevant subroutines.

Topological access

For more information see PostGIS Topology page.supports