g.gui.dbmgr(1grass)

💅 g.gui.dbmgr — the GRASS manual, but make it serve

okay bestie, welcome to the g.gui.dbmgr page from the GRASS User's Manual 💖 this is the one that pops open the whole graphical attribute table manager for you, and honestly? it's giving main character energy for anyone who's ever squinted at a vector map's attributes and thought "…and now what."

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✨ NAME ✨

g.gui.dbmgr — she launches the graphical attribute table manager. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 🫶

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🏷️ KEYWORDS 🏷️

general, GUI, attribute table, database

iykyk — this is where the data girlies live 💾✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

g.gui.dbmgr
g.gui.dbmgr --help
g.gui.dbmgr map=name  [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

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🎀 Flags 🎀

• --help — prints the usage summary, aka the "explain urself" button 🙈
• --verbose — verbose module output, for when you want the module to over-share 😭
• --quiet — quiet module output, for when you want it to whisper 🍓
• --ui — forces the GUI dialog to launch. no, like, actually. it's happening 💅

🦋 Parameters 🦋

• map=name [required] — the name of the vector map. yes bestie, required, you cannot skip her.
  • Or data source for direct OGR access — that's the other option, direct OGR vibes 🌈

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so. the Attribute Table Manager is a wxGUI component, and her whole personality is query, edit, and manage attribute data for vector maps. lowkey iconic.

you can launch her two ways: click the icon in the toolbar ✨ (you know the one), or just run the stand-alone module g.gui.dbmgr. both paths lead to greatness.

Here's everything the Attribute Table Manager lets you do, fr fr:

• browse attribute data of vector map, perform SQL select statements;
• modify attribute data, insert new records to attribute table, delete existing records;
• highlight selected items in the Map Display Window;
• extract selected items into a new vector map;
• modify attribute table - add, drop, rename columns;
• modify vector map DB connection settings - add, remove or modify layers.

💀 six whole superpowers. not her being the most versatile thing in the whole toolbar.

Figure: Simple attribute filtering using Attribute Table Manager.

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🧚 SQL Builder 🧚

Figure: Attribute filtering using Attribute Table Manager and SQL Builder.

(this is the part where you go full detective mode on your own data and it just. works. 🔥)

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• wxGUI, wxGUI components
• db.columns, db.connect, db.describe, db.drivers, db.execute, db.select, db.tables
• v.db.addcolumn, v.db.connect, v.db.dropcolumn, v.db.renamecolumn, v.what

See also wiki page including video tutorials. 🎀

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

• Martin Landa, FBK-irst (2007-2008), Trento, Italy, and OSGeoREL at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
• Michael Barton, Arizona State University, USA
• Jachym Cepicky

the founding mothers and fathers of this vibe, we salute you 👑

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💾 SOURCE CODE 💾

Available at: wxGUI Attribute Table Manager source code (history)

Accessed: Tuesday Sep 08 11:56:21 2026

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and that's the whole page bestie. this one lands in the GRASS 8.5.0 Reference Manual, © 2003-2026 GRASS Development Team, source/version stamped GRASS 8.5.0 and last touched Tuesday Sep 08 11:56:21 2026. go forth and manage those attributes, you absolute legend 🌟💅