Re: hi, newbie coming

[Laurent Valdes]

Hi everybody,

PostgreSQL is a great DBMS,
it appears that now good and free ODBC packages exist.
I suggest it would be better to implement ODBC integration before any
special kind of database.
After that, integration with PostgreSQL could be made in a breathe.

Best regards,
Laurent



2007/10/16, Jörg Beyer <address@hidden>:
> Hi all!
>
> Interesting thread. I'm watching pspp since January or so, and this seems a
> good time to chime in for the first time. I'd like to give some feedback
> that I hope is of some use. Sorry that I can't offer more at the moment.
>
>
> +1 for PostgreSQL-support.
> (Or better, +10^10, PostgreSQL is a fantastic RDBMS IMHO :-)
> It may be of interest to note that the forthcoming 8.3 release adds two new
> generic data types, UUID and XML.
>
> +1 for being able to read spreadsheets, especially OpenOffice ones, which
> should give us an opportunity to read Excel docs, too. Sometimes you don't
> have a choice.
>
>
> In general, I see pspp not only as a clone of 'that other software', but as
> a very welcome and integral part of a larger ecosystem for data analysis.
> Thanks for all your efforts so far!
>
> Jörg
>
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:30:39 +0800, John Darrington wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:01:04PM +0200, Laurent Valdes wrote:
> >>
> >> I think I will focus on database integration,
> >
> > Database integration would be nice.   It should be fairly
> > straightforward to make a casereader that reads from a postgres
> > database, using the libpq library :
> >  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/libpq-connect.html
> >
> > Having done that a writing a GET TRANSLATE command is a matter of
> > rountine.
> >
> > It'd also be nice to have an option which reads/writes gnumeric and/or
> > openoffice.org spreadsheets too.
> >
> > J'
>
>
>
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> Dept. of Psychology
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