Re: Problems with PostgreSQL DBI-Link / DBD-ODBC

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:44:05PM +0100, Pit M. wrote:
> I have the following problem with PostgreSQL and hope you guys can
> help me out in this matter: I try to get a remote connection to any
> database (e.g. MS-SQL or MS Access) using DBI-Link and DBD:ODBC. My
> problem is, that everything seems fine so far, however I don't know
> how to use the parameters for "make_accessor_functions()". I
> searched the net for it, but can only find samples for
> Perl-Scripting, but I need a sample for using it directly in SQL.
>
> This is what I've come up so far. Hope you can point me to the right
> direction.
>
> SELECT make_accessor_functions(
> 'dbi:ODBC:Northwind::dbi_link.data_source,
> 'sa'::text,
> NULL::text,
> '---
> AutoCommit: 1
> RaiseError: 1
> '::dbi_link.yaml,
> NULL::dbi_link.yaml,
> NULL::text,
> NULL, ::text,
> 'Northwind'::text
> );
>
>
> I have a ODBC connection named "Northwind".
>
> The error message I'm always receiving (for the MS-SQL sample) is:
>
> ERROR: error from Perl function: error from Perl function: duplicate key
> violates unique constraint "dbi_connection_data_source_key" at line 94.
> at line 35.
> SQL state: XX000

It looks like you're trying to connect the same data_source and
user_name twice. Check whether the existing one works :)

Are the documents unclear on the idea that you only run
make_accessor_functions() once per remote (data_source,user_name)
pair per local database?

Cheers,
David.
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