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

diff --git a/lisp/ob-sql.el b/lisp/ob-sql.el

index 364070e..838f013 100644

--- a/lisp/ob-sql.el
+++ b/lisp/ob-sql.el

@@ -73,7 +73,9 @@ This function is called by `org-babel-execute-src-block'."

(org-babel-process-file-name out-file)))
('mysql (format "mysql %s -e \"source %s\" > %s"
(or cmdline "")
- (org-babel-process-file-name in-file)

+ (replace-regexp-in-string
+ "\\-" "\\\\-"
+ (org-babel-process-file-name in-file))

(org-babel-process-file-name out-file)))

('postgresql (format
"psql -A -P footer=off -F \"\t\" -f %s -o %s %s"
#+end_src

Best -- Eric

Alain Clément <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 
> Changes in HEAD 
> Modified lisp/ob-sql.el 
> diff --git a/lisp/ob-sql.el b/lisp/ob-sql.el 
> index 364070e..604d444 100644 
> --- a/lisp/ob-sql.el 
> +++ b/lisp/ob-sql.el 
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ This function is called by `org-babel-execute-src-block'." 
> (or cmdline "") 
> (org-babel-process-file-name in-file) 
> (org-babel-process-file-name out-file))) 
> - ('mysql (format "mysql %s -e \"source %s\" > %s" 
> + ('mysql (format "mysql %s -e 'source %s' > %s" 
> (or cmdline "") 
> (org-babel-process-file-name in-file) 
> (org-babel-process-file-name out-file))) 
> #+end_src 

> 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

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