Why?

[K]

Just a suggestion check out the Pure Perl PostgreSQL driver ppgsql package they coded around numerous quirks in pgsql.

Kevin


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 --- On Tue 10/05, Frank D. Engel, Jr. < fde101 at fjrhome.net > wrote:
From: Frank D. Engel, Jr. [mailto: fde101 at fjrhome.net]
To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:37:24 -0400
Subject: Why?

Okay, so I got tired of waiting for RevDB to be fixed for PostgreSQL <br>(or for some explanation of how to set it up, in case my drivers are <br>not correctly positioned), so I am trying to write my own, <br>Transcript-native PostgreSQL driver for Rev (with its own API, by means <br>of a 'start using' command...)  Never tried this before, but I did get <br>the 'start using' to work.<br><br>I *think* I was able to get sockets working, too, but for some reason, <br>at least under OS X, I cannot seem to read from a socket.  What am I <br>doing wrong here?  I have the following handler in my code:<br><br>function pgFetchMessage<br>   read from socket pg_sock for 5<br>   put it into x<br>   put (charToNum(char 2 of x) * 16777216) + (charToNum(char 3 of x) * <br>65536) + (charToNum(char 4 of x) * 256) + charToNum(char 5 of x) \<br>       into l<br>   read from socket pg_sock for l<br>   put it into z<br>   answer charToNum(the first char of x) titled (pg_sock) && (the length <br>of x)<br>   return (x & z)<br>end pgFetchMessage<br><br><br>The "answer" line results in the following title bar (empty message):<br><br>localhost:5432 0<br><br>Why would this happen?  That "0" means that the length of string "x" <br>(which should contain exactly five characters, right?) is zero.  In <br>other words, that string is empty -- but it shouldn't be!<br><br>Somehow I was able to get it to register a message with the letter "O" <br>out in front, when I was expecting to get an "R" from the server.  I <br>went over the protocol docs to figure out what would cause a message <br>starting with "O", and there was no message starting with "O" in the <br>docs.  Strange...<br><br>I am reasonably convinced (given the handler below) that I am not <br>getting a socketError (the "err!" box never shows up; pg_wantsock <br>contains the same text as pg_sock by now):<br><br>on socketError sock, errmsg<br>   if sock is pg_wantsock then<br>     put empty into pg_sock<br>     put errmsg into pg_err<br>   end if<br>   answer "err!" & errmsg<br>end socketError<br><br><br>So what could be happening?<br><br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------<br>Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net><br><br>$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual<br>$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"<br>John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten <br>Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have <br>everlasting life.<br>$ <br>_______________________________________________<br>use-revolution mailing list<br>use-revolution at lists.runrev.com<br>http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution<br>

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