Le 23/05/12 17:40, Ian "Witty" Whitfield a écrit : Hi Ian,
> I'm trying to use the PostgreSQL: SDBC Driver, following the > instructions on _www.openoffice.org/dba/drivers/postgresql/index.html_, > with AOO 3.4. > > I have installed PostgreSQL Server on my PCLinuxOS 2012-2 machine. > Started the Server in the Control Panel and downloaded the SDBC Driver. Hmm, which version of the driver are you using ? The 0.76 one (as far as I know that was the latest version made available) ? This was, hmm, suboptimal on quite a few OS/arch combinations, i.e. as in it didn't work at all in some cases, in fact I think it got broken at some stage during 3.3.x development, and it wasn't updated all that regularly. Certainly, with Mac OSX, I don't think a driver was ever made available, and thus I could never test it with OOo. I ended up using the JDBC3 connector, which was indeed, slow (but usable with OOo for small datasets). On Linux, I did the same. > > When I try to make a connection I select (as instructed), "Connect to > existing Database", in step two it asks for Datasource URL and the > instructions say this can be left blank if the Server is on the local > machine (which it is). Whatever I enter in this box results in a "Failed > to connect - Database does not exist". If I leave it blank I have no > option to go on with the installation. Perhaps someone will be brave/foolhardy/motivated enough to update/rewrite the existing code that was made available as an extension for OOo and provide that as a new updated extension for AOOo. Perhaps even the original author could be persuaded to do so, if he/she can be contacted, but I doubt it, external database connectors are not included within the default AOOo project, to my knowledge, for reasons related to incompatible licensing. Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
