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Re: postgresql queries [message #58060 is a reply to message #58041]

Fri, 11 January 2008 08:20

Brian Larsen
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Registered: June 2006

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On Jan 11, 11:08 am, Allard de Wit <allard.de...@wur.nl> wrote:
> On Jan 11, 4:55 pm, Dave <Confused.Scient...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if there is a general way to connect and query a
>> postgresql database from within IDL using linux and os x? My group
>> has a few linux licenses for 6.4/7.0 but I'm using an older version of
>> the student version on my laptop (os x).
>
>> Many thanks,
>> Dave
>
> Dear Dave,
>
> You will probably need the IDL dataminer which is licensed separately.
> I am not sure whether it supports PostgreSQL though.
> The other route is to write a DLM using the open source drivers for
> postgress, but I have no experience with that.
>
> If IDL is not strictly needed, you may consider Python which has
> excellent DB support including PostgreSQL.
>
> with best regards,
>
> Allard

I have done this before with mysql with spawn statements calling
queries. It worked, dataminer is better but costs money.

Cheers,

Brian

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Boston University
Center for Space Physics

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