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Am 05.02.2011 17:22, schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, [iso-8859-1] RENIER M�lanie wrote:

I found that in fact if GRETL says it connect to the data source
inf1 in Oracle, it does not stay connected to it! Does somebody
already encounter this problem?
Here is what gretl actually does when you issue the commands

  open ... --odbc

to open an ODBC connection, and

  data ... --odbc

to retrieve data from such a connection.

1) In response to the "open" command we record the information you
provide (DSN, username and password) and try an SQLConnect. If the
connection fails, we issue an error message and delete the DSN
information. If the connection succeeds, we close the connection
with SQLDisconnect but retain the good DSN information for use
with the "data" command.

2) In response to the "data" command we see if there is a set of
good, stored DSN information (from a successful "open"), and if
so we use SQLConnect, grab the requested data, then do
SQLDisconnect.

That is, we don't keep the DB connection open indefinitely, rather
we open it on demand based on verified DSN information. And that
information will stay in place for the duration of a gretl
session, unless it is replaced by a further invocation of
"open ... --odbc".

On the SQLConnect there is a login timeout of 5 seconds, which
seems to be fairly standard. If you have a particularly cranky
DBMS that won't authenticate you within 5 seconds, the "open"
and/or "data" commands will fail.

Allin Cottrell



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