Hi Eric,
Thank you so much, your "fearless development" is great and very
appreciated!
Best regards,
- Alain

2011/3/7 Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>

> To be honest, I don't have any overly motivating reasons for passing the
> file name to mysql rather than piping the contents of the file.  Aside
> from consistency with the other SQL engines, the nagging feeling that
> things are the way they are for a reason, and a healthy fear of the new
> and unknown.  However development is not for cowards, I've applied your
> suggestion, and mysql is now reading input through stdin.
>
> Best -- Eric
>
> Alain Clément <alain.clement@unil.ch> writes:
>
> > Hi Eric,
> > Thanks for your message and sorry for the delay.
> > Actually, escaping characters with backslashes is the problem within
> mysql when the =SOURCE= command is invoqued. To believe the forums, it seems
> that this difficulty is well
> > known among mysql users. The suggested solution there consists in piping
> the file content via the standard input of the mysql command instead of
> making use of the =SOURCE=
> > command. In other words, let the shell do the job of finding the file as
> mysql can't. My initial suggestion for a patch relies on this conclusion and
> seems to work well. Now
> > it's time to stop my own advertising and ask you about the cons of such a
> patch.
> > Best regards and thank you again.
> > - Alain
> >
> > 2011/3/3 Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
> >
> >     Hi Alain,
> >
> >     Would the following work (escaping "-"s with a backslash)?
> >
> > #+begin_src diff<br>
> > <div> diff --git a/lisp/ob-sql.el b/lisp/ob-sql.el<br>
> > </div> index 364070e..838f013 100644<br>
> > <div> --- a/lisp/ob-sql.el<br>
> >  +++ b/lisp/ob-sql.el<br>
> > </div> @@ -73,7 +73,9 @@ This function is called by
> `org-babel-execute-src-block&#39;.&quot;<br>
> > <div>                    (org-babel-process-file-name out-file)))<br>
> >             (&#39;mysql (format &quot;mysql %s -e \&quot;source %s\&quot;
> &gt; %s&quot;<br>
> >                     (or cmdline &quot;&quot;)<br>
> >  -                 (org-babel-process-file-name in-file)<br>
> > </div> +                 (replace-regexp-in-string<br>
> >  +                 &quot;\\-&quot; &quot;\\\\-&quot;<br>
> >  +                 (org-babel-process-file-name in-file))<br>
> > <div>                   (org-babel-process-file-name out-file)))<br>
> > </div>           (&#39;postgresql (format<br>
> >                   &quot;psql -A -P footer=off -F \&quot;\t\&quot; -f %s
> -o %s %s&quot;<br>
> > #+end_src<br>
> > Best -- Eric
> >
> > Alain Cl?ment <alain.clement@unil.ch> writes:
> >
> >> Hi Eric,
> >>
> >> Thanks for your prompt answer! Actually, it doesn't work since mysql
> interprets backslashes as options, even between quotes. The value of my
> >> `org-babel-temporary-directory' is
> "/var/folders/9E/9EMu+g0oHBSrq-h9sX6i1U+++TM/-Tmp-/babel-86766893", but
> "+"'s are escaped with a backslash at some stage.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> - Alain
> >>
> >> 2011/3/3 Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> ? ? Hi Alain,
> >>
> >> ? ? Does the following alternative fix work for you?
> >>
> >> #+begin_src diff<br>
> >> ?Changes in HEAD<br>
> >> ? ? ?Modified lisp/ob-sql.el<br>
> >> ?diff --git a/lisp/ob-sql.el b/lisp/ob-sql.el<br>
> >> ?index 364070e..604d444 100644<br>
> >> ?--- a/lisp/ob-sql.el<br>
> >> ?+++ b/lisp/ob-sql.el<br>
> >> ?@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ This function is called by
> `org-babel-execute-src-block&#39;.&quot;<br>
> >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (or cmdline &quot;&quot;)<br>
> >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (org-babel-process-file-name in-file)<br>
> >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (org-babel-process-file-name out-file)))<br>
> >> ?- ? ? ? ? ?(&#39;mysql (format &quot;mysql %s -e \&quot;source
> %s\&quot; &gt; %s&quot;<br>
> >> ?+ ? ? ? ? ?(&#39;mysql (format &quot;mysql %s -e &#39;source %s&#39;
> &gt; %s&quot;<br>
> >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (or cmdline &quot;&quot;)<br>
> >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(org-babel-process-file-name in-file)<br>
> >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(org-babel-process-file-name out-file)))<br>
> >> #+end_src<br>
> >> Also, just out of curiosity would you mind sharing an example result of
> >> `org-babel-temporary-directory' which contains backslashes?
> >>
> >> Thanks -- Eric
> >>
> >> Alain Cl?ment <alain.clement@unil.ch> writes:
> >>
> >>> Hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>> The =org-babel-temp-file= string seems to be escaped with backslashes
> on
> >>> some platforms (like MacOSX), which is not very appreciated by the
> =mysql
> >>> -e= command. I suggest the following patch for =ob-sql.el= (Org-mode
> Version
> >>> 7.4 (release_7.4.590.g85d4d)):
> >>>
> >>> 74c74
> >>> < ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ('mysql (format "mysql %s < %s > %s"
> >>> ---
> >>>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ('mysql (format "mysql %s -e \"source %s\" > %s"
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> -- Alain
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Alain Cl?ment
> >>> Dr ?s sc. math?matiques
> >>>
> >>> Universit? de Lausanne
> >>> Quartier UNIL-Centre
> >>> B?timent Unicentre
> >>> Bureau 339
> >>> CH-1015 Lausanne
> >>>
> >>> T. +41 21 692 20 36 (direct)
> >>> T. +41 21 692 20 60 (secr?tariat)
> >>>
> >>> alain.clement@unil.ch
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> [lo_unil05_bleu]
> >>
> >> Alain Cl?ment
> >> Dr ?s sc. math?matiques
> >>
> >> Universit? de Lausanne
> >> Quartier UNIL-Centre
> >> B?timent Unicentre
> >> Bureau 339
> >> CH-1015 Lausanne
> >>
> >> T. +41 21 692 20 36 (direct)
> >> T. +41 21 692 20 60 (secr?tariat)
> >>
> >> alain.clement@unil.ch
> >
> > --
> >
> > [lo_unil05_bleu]
> >
> > Alain Cl?ment
> > Dr ?s sc. math?matiques
> >
> > Universit? de Lausanne
> > Quartier UNIL-Centre
> > B?timent Unicentre
> > Bureau 339
> > CH-1015 Lausanne
> >
> > T. +41 21 692 20 36 (direct)
> > T. +41 21 692 20 60 (secr?tariat)
> >
> > alain.clement@unil.ch
>



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Alain Clément
Dr ès sc. mathématiques

Université de Lausanne
Quartier UNIL-Centre
Bâtiment Unicentre
Bureau 339
CH-1015 Lausanne

T. +41 21 692 20 36 (direct)
T. +41 21 692 20 60 (secrétariat)

alain.clement@unil.ch