> Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:22:45 +0200 (CEST) > From: "Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti" <r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it> > Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Postgresql ODBC connection > To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu> > Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1004200918580.19309(a)ec-4.econ.univpm.it> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" > > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Stefan Rehm wrote: > > > Hi, > > i want to extract data from an existing PostgreSQL database on > > localhost. I tested the ODBC connection with OpenOffice and it works > > nice after entering the database user and password. > > But i'm still confused to extract the data with Gretl. I connected via > > the gretl console to the database named eix with > > > > open dsn=eix user=databaseuser password=password --odbc > > > > and there are no output from the gretl console. how can i access the > > data? > > You're halfway through. The "open" command establishes the connection. > The actual data retrieval is a job for the "data" command, which stores > the output of an SQL query. Example: > > <script> > qry = "select foo from bar" > data myseries query=qry --odbc > </script>
Hmm, no chance. There is no message after the open command. So i'm not shure if everything work fine. To retrieve the data i use this workflow: open dsn='Postgresql eix' user=postgres password=xxx --odbc [no message in gretl console, then i tried:] data x query="SELECT id FROM person" --odbc Can somebody help me out? Best Regards Stefan
