Re: Can someone test installing 'database' and connecting on Mac OS X?

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Olaf Till wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I got a bug report off-list with a segfault of the database package on
> Mac OS X. I couldn't get much further information, but still wouldn't
> like to drop it.
> 
> If someone has installed, or tried to install, database on Mac OS X,
> could he/she report?
> 
> Or if someone on Mac OS X thinks he can make the effort to install the
> latest packaged version (2.1.1), try connecting to some postgresql
> database, and to obtain a backtrace in case of segfault, this would be
> great (but don't do it if it takes an hour or more, this would not be
> justified since the OP did not make such an effort).
> 
> FYI, the configuration of the OP was:
> 
> Mac OS X 10.8.3
> gcc version 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
> 
> GNU Octave, version 3.6.3
> 
> postgres (PostgreSQL) 9.2.1 (I tried libpq of 9.2.1 on my system
> without getting a segfault.)
> 
> 
> The segfault was reported to happen at connection time:
> 
> conn = pq_connect (setdbopts ("dbname", "name_of_database")); # -> crash
> 
> 
> Olaf

I have  not used the database package, but it is available via macports.

        
https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/math/octave-database/Portfile

It may also be available via Fink, but the site listing available packages is 
down at the moment.

Ben