reassign 354723 r-cran-rodbc
thanks

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:01:35AM +0100, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> > strace is useless for debugging a segfault.  Please run your test script
> > under gdb and forward the backtrace. 

> > http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace

> OK, thanks for the hint! I just wanted to install the build-deps for
> php5-odbc but then it wanted to deinstall a couple of things:

> stiller:~/tmp# LANG=en_EN apt-get build-dep php5-odbc
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   flex-old libdb3-dev libgnome-dev libmysqlclient12-dev

> flex-old and libmysqlclient12-dev were build-deps of unixodbc which I 
> rebuilt earlier today. I guess that's the problem. So I would like to
> focus on RODBC:

> > > but if I use the correct column name, it returns an empty set 

> > >   > query <- "select plate from plates"
> > >   >  tables <- sqlQuery(channel,query,errors=TRUE)
> > >   >  tables
> > >   character(0)
> > >   > odbcGetErrMsg(channel)
> > >   character(0)

> > > although the same query issued with the mysql command line client (and
> > > same username and password) gives 1202 rows.

> > And what happens if you issue the query using the isql commandline tool?

> Then it also gives 1202 rows! So it seems to be a coincidence that both RODBC
> and php5-odbc are messed up on my system.

Yes, and it seems to not be a bug in unixodbc.  Reassigning to rodbc.

> I didn't know isql so far, although I was looking for something like
> this - it's great! 

> I am just rebuilding R with the nostrip option because this is what I am
> really interested in.

The only segfault you reported was in php; I don't see that rebuilding R
with debugging symbols will be particularly useful.  A backtrace of the php
segfault, with or without debugging symbols, may be helpful, but that's a
separate bug from the rodbc bug.

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