[Bioperl-l] error running load_seqdatabase.pl

[Angshu Kar]

I'm sorry that I missed it! Thanks for pointing it out.
Also thanks Hilmar for the update.

Angshu

On 12/29/05, Torsten Seemann <torsten.seemann at infotech.monash.edu.au >
wrote:
>
> > I'm getting the following error while trying to run :
> > ./load_seqdatabase.pl -host localhost -dbname USBA -dbuser postgres
> -format
> > genbank NC_003076.gbk
> > MSG: failed to open connection: Can't connect to local MySQL server
> through
> > socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
> > But I've a postgreSQL db and not a MySQL one...could anyone please guide
> me
> > troubleshoot this?
>
> Did you read the documentation for the load_seqdatabase.pl script?
>
> It's in the script itself!
>
>     =item --driver $driver
>     the DBI driver name for the RDBMS e.g., mysql, Pg, or Oracle [mysql]
>
> The default DBI driver is [mysql].
>
> I think you want the option "-driver Pg".
>
> --
> Torsten Seemann
> Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Australia
> http://www.vicbioinformatics.com/
>