[Rd] RODBC problems with unixodbc
Sean Davis
sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Tue Feb 20 20:02:15 CET 2007
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 13:51, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that if a column is named "end" in a data frame (table.df
> below), it leads to errors when trying to sqlSave()'it to a postgresql
> connection:
>
>
> ---<---------------cut here---------------start-------------->---
> con <- odbcConnect("PostgreSQL-DB", uid="user", pwd="password",
> case="postgresql")
> R> sqlSave(con, table.df)
> Error in sqlSave(con, table.df) :
> [RODBC] ERROR: Could not SQLExecDirect
> 42601 7 [unixODBC]Error while executing the query;
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "end" at character 140
> ---<---------------cut here---------------end---------------->---
>
>
> If I rename the column to something else (e.g. "ending"), this proceeds
> without problems. What could the problem be here? Thanks.
"end" is a reserved word in postgresql. See here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-keywords-appendix.html
This doesn't have anything to do with RODBC or unixODBC, I don't think.
Sean
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