[Gretl-devel] ODBC connector

Hi all, for the first time I am working with gretl's ODBC connector. So far it seems to work fine for standard queries using the Exasol data base on linux. However, I stumbled over to 2 issues: 1) I want to write a open_odbc_connection() function. Unfortunately, the 'open' command cannot be executed within a function. For its standard application loading a data set I fully understand the reason. However, for just opening a ODBC connection by the '--odbc" option, I don't get rational for this restriction. Feature request: Allow making use of the open command in case the --odbc option is passed. 2) While loading data through the 'data' command, e.g. by executing <data x query="@statement" --odbc>, this command does not seem to work in case one wants to send a 'statement' -- like "create table" or "drop table" -- to the database which does not return a series. Feature request: allow sending a sql-statement which does not return a series or anything. Maybe these points imply to add a new command or function. What do you think? Thanks, Artur