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Re: Using SQL databases from IDL? [message #82245 is a reply to message #82237]

Tue, 27 November 2012 05:55

John Correira
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Registered: August 2011

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On 11/25/2012 06:46 PM, Bogdanovist wrote:
> Does anyone have experience using SQL databases from IDL? Note that I
> am referring to vanilla IDL without additional license requirements
> such as Dataminer. I have found, for instance, a package idl-sql
> (http://code.google.com/p/idl-sql/) that allows SQL queries from IDL,
> but I also would need to be able to write to the database, as well as
> read.
>
> I currently use simple CSV files to store data however the kind of
> data queries I need to do means that I am effective re-coding a
> relational database within my IDL project in order to be able to
> provide myself a simple interface to grab the relevant data at any
> point that is likely to be distributed across multiple files. Can I
> use an SQL database to avoid re-engineering that wheel or does IDL
> not play nice with this?

I've been using pgsql_query (https://github.com/segasai/pg_idl) on a
Linux box to (mostly) read from a PostgreSQL database and have been very
pleased with it.

John

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		Re: Using SQL databases from IDL? By: lecacheux.alain on Wed, 28 November 2012 01:15
		Re: Using SQL databases from IDL? By: Matt Francis on Tue, 27 November 2012 13:27
		Re: Using SQL databases from IDL? By: John Correira on Tue, 27 November 2012 05:55
		Re: Using SQL databases from IDL? By: lecacheux.alain on Tue, 27 November 2012 01:04

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