babel and postgresql

[dmg <dmg@uvic.ca>]

Hi everybody, Eric,

I have been starting using Babel with postgresql, R and perl, and I am
loving it. I really want to thank everybody for their work.

I have found one particular issue that bothers me.

Say I have the following babel section:

#+name: abc
#+begin_src sql :engine postgresql :cmdline mydb
select * from aliases limit 1;
#+end_src

the output is:

#+name: abc
| alias                     | uniname      |
| Jon <tixy@xyz.org>        | jon          |

Note how the column names are not separated from the body:

What I want it this:

#+name:
| alias                     | uniname      |
|---------------------------+--------------|
| Jon <tixy@xyz.org>        | jon          |

I have tracked the problem, and it is that in ob-sql.el the code of
org-babel-execute:sql thinks that postgres will return a header separator,
and it does not.

I am not sure what is the best way to fix it, but I have come with a
patch that does it (but replaced the older code). The code in
org-babel-execute:sql
needs to be modified so it does this only for the postgres backend:
split the list into first member and rest and insert a 'hline in
between. My solution is rough, but it works (sorry, I am just an elisp beginner)


diff --git a/lisp/ob-sql.el b/lisp/ob-sql.el
index 3586ec9..95cac85 100644
--- a/lisp/ob-sql.el
+++ b/lisp/ob-sql.el
@@ -170,11 +170,12 @@ This function is called by `org-babel-execute-src-block'."
 	  )
 	(org-table-import out-file '(16))
 	(org-babel-reassemble-table
-	 (mapcar (lambda (x)
-		   (if (string= (car x) header-delim)
-		       'hline
-		     x))
-		 (org-table-to-lisp))
+	 (funcall (lambda (x)
+		    (cons (car-safe x)
+			  (cons 'hline (cdr-safe x))
+			  )
+		    )
+		(org-table-to-lisp))
 	 (org-babel-pick-name (cdr (assoc :colname-names params))
 			      (cdr (assoc :colnames params)))
 	 (org-babel-pick-name (cdr (assoc :rowname-names params))



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--dmg

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Daniel M. German
http://turingmachine.org