[Babase] Re: Oh.... RE: made tables but can't fill

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Fri Oct 30 16:31:15 EDT 2009


On 10/30/2009 03:05:01 PM, Niki Learn wrote:
> Okay, looks like I have to put babase_pending in the table or view
> line
> before the table name, not in the database line!  I didn't expect
> that. 

How would we fix people's expectations?  I could put a separate
input box for schema, but that might confuse people who don't need
to enter anything.  I suppose it could be pre-filled-in with 'babase'.

Or I could change the label for the table/view entry....

There's already a tip in the 'upload' section of the docs....
https://papio.biology.duke.edu/babase_system_html/ch09s01.html

> Now
> I have a new error for every line at character 27.  Let's see where
> that
> goes.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks anyway.
> 
> Niki
> 
>  
> 
> From: Niki Learn [mailto:nlearn at princeton.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 3:53 PM
> To: 'Karl Pinc'
> Subject: made tables but can't fill
> 
>  
> 
> Karl,
> 
>  
> 
> So I made the healing tables and the tab delimited files and tried to
> upload.  I keep getting this error for every line.  What's this mean? 
>   I
> checked my column headings and they match, I changed the permissions
> to give
> babase editors editing rights, I tried one of the simpler files and
> got the
> same error.  What am I missing?
> 
>  
> 
> Am I somehow not directing it to the correct place (babase_pending)? 
> Typing
> babase_pending as the location gives me a login error but I don't 
> know
> if
> just babase tells is to look in pending.  I tried
> babase,babase_pending and
> that didn't work either.
> 
> File supplied: wp_index.txt
> 
> Line 2: ERROR: relation "wp_index" does not exist
> 
> CAUTION -- This error may not be real; prior row(s) of the uploaded
> file
> were rejected:
> Line 3: ERROR: relation "wp_index" does not exist
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Niki
> 
> 




Karl <kop at meme.com>
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