[R-sig-DB] RdbiPgSQL

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Joe,

Thanks for the feedback!

On 5 April 2008 at 15:33, Joe Conway wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > I have offered to help with the Google Summer of Code projects for building a
| > DBI / PostgreSQL interface.  Given the template of Rdbi/RdbiPgSQL we know
| > that this will easily work on Linux et al, but has anybody tried this under
| > Windows?   
| > 
| > According to the PostgreSQL website, building on Windows using MinGW should
| > 'just work'.  Can anybody here with a R-bent give any additional colour: did
| > it or didn't it work ?  
| 
| It's been a while, but I have built both Postgres and PL/R successfully 
| under MinGW on WinXP. I don't have much spare time these days (can 
| barley keep PL/R updated), but if you run into problems I'll try to help.

It so happens that I just heard from one of the SoC students, and he now
succeeded to after installing MSys and rebuilding Pg.  RdbiPgSQL then built
fine against the locally-built libpq.

Thanks for the offer for help.  We may take you up on it!

Cheers, Dirk

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