Corrado wrote: > I apologise .... The dsn is not empty, the database the dsn connects to is > empty! > > You get the same error when connecting to a populated database.
Do I? I wouldn't know... (You are _still_ not providing steps to reproduce the situation!) The actual maintainer might know, though, so wait for him to chime in. -p > > Regards > > > On Friday 31 October 2008 12:26:39 Peter Dalgaard wrote: >> Corrado wrote: >>> Dear friends, >>> >>> there is a serious problem with RODBC on R from 2.6.2 to 2.8.0 on a >>> postgresql 8.3 database. >>> >>> Let's say we define an empty dsn called "test", with user "postgres" and >>> password "none". We test the connection with another application, and it >>> works properly. >>> >>> When you call the database using RODBC, you get the following: >>>> odbcConnect("test","postgres","none") >>> *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib64/R/bin/exec/R terminated >>> ======= Backtrace: ========= >>> /lib64/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x2ad38a3f4157] >>> /lib64/libc.so.6[0x2ad38a3f27e0] >>> /lib64/libc.so.6[0x2ad38a3f1db9] >>> /lib64/libc.so.6(_IO_default_xsputn+0x8e)[0x2ad38a379b5e] >>> /lib64/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x3c22)[0x2ad38a351fa2] >>> /lib64/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0x9d)[0x2ad38a3f1e5d] >>> /lib64/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x80)[0x2ad38a3f1da0] >>> /usr/lib64/libodbcpsql.so.2(SQLGetInfo+0x973)[0x2ad38de11013] >>> /usr/lib64/libodbc.so.1(SQLGetInfo+0x624)[0x2ad38c5e91a4] >>> /usr/lib64/R/library/RODBC/libs/RODBC.so(RODBCGetInfo+0xbb)[0x2ad38c393a9 >>> b] >> -....- >> >>> OS: Mandriva 2008.1 x86_64 >>> Postgresql: 8.3.1 (PostGIS enabled) >>> R: from 2.6.2 from repository to 2.8.0 repackaged >>> >>> Is it my doing, or R's doing? >> (R-help snipped) >> >> It looks like that the problem is in the RODBC package, so the >> maintainer of RODBC should be informed. For reproducibility, you might >> need to be more explicit about how to create an "empty dsn" with postgres. > > > -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Ă˜ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel