revOpenDatabase on Linux - works in IDE, broken in standalone - how do I fix?

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Tue Jan 13 11:31:55 EST 2009


Not sure if this helps, but in my help system under the Revdb  
commands, there is a blurb at the bottom which states that for  
standalones you have to include the plugins for revdb in order for the  
commands to work.

Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM

On Jan 12, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:

> Ben Rubinstein wrote:
>> Accessing PostgreSQL database on Linux.  Works in IDE; using  
>> standalone,
>> throws error in revOpenDatabase. (219: Function: error in function
>> handler).
>>
>> Works in both 2.9 and 3.0 in IDE; fails in standalone built from  
>> either.
>
> Just for the record/benefit of a future stumbler over this thread, I  
> found the
> problem (my own stupidity, of course, but I mean in more detail...).
>
> This is an app that I've been using and developing for over four  
> years, and
> hence over many versions of Rev (possibly starting in 1.0???) on Mac  
> and
> Windows, but am just now moving to Linux.
>
> In the Standalone Application Settings, there is a checkbox for  
> Database
> Support; and there is also an item "Database" in the list of Script  
> Libraries.
>  It turns out that when building a database to Mac and Windows, if  
> Database
> Support is checked, there is no need to select "Database" in the  
> script
> libraries.  However, the same is not true for Linux...
>
> - Ben
>
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