[Gretl-devel] Re: ODBC connector
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020, atecon wrote:
Am 24.02.2020 13:15 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2020, atecon wrote:
>
>> I just compiled latest source code from git. Unfortunately, the 'open'
>> command still returns an error when calling the function:
>>
>> <hansl>
>> function void open_odbc_connection (string DSN,
>> string USER,
>> string PW)
>> open dsn=@DSN user=@USER password=@PW --odbc
>> end function
>> </hansl>
>>
>> The error message is: "The "open" command cannot be used in this
context
>> *** error in function open_odbc_connection, line 1"
>
> It works OK here. Are you sure you're calling gretl built from current
> git master?
Sorry for the noise, "git pull" yielded some error here. Works fine now!
While we're on the subject: I need to pull a string-valued series from an
ODBC source, which is not possible at present (if I'm not mistaken). Shall
we leave this for after release?
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
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http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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