Hi Thomas, materialization is no longer necessary in 0.8, You can interact with the source schema through a 'virtual dataset'. The compiler will compile SQL against the source. Just create a dataset, launch the server and query it.
As for the materilize bugs Junjun will be able to help you more a On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Thomas TRIPLET <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed a bug in MartConfigurator. I've added a data source from a > Postgres database schema. However, when I try to materialize the view, I get > an error due to case sensitivity. From the log, it appears that the SQL > generator does not encapsulate the table names with quotes and thus does not > support table names with caps. Is there a way this could be fixed? > > Also, is materialization strictly necessary to run BioMart with sources > from an external database schema? The psql database schema runs on the same > machine as BioMart. I've added the data source as mentioned in the > documentation, then started the the server. On the web page, I do get the > list of data sources, with appropriate fields. However, it looks like > there's is no data at all as any query return "no result". It worked fine > though with the example from the documentation, so I was wondering if extra > steps are needed for custom data sources (sorry for my ignorance, I'm just > starting with BioMart, and I'll probably have a few questions in the next > few weeks) > > Thanks a lot for any input > Thomas > > -- > Thomas Triplet, Ph.D. > http://www.thomastriplet.net > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.biomart.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >
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