Try this: | sql conn connectionSpec result | sql := 'SELECT * FROM search_terms'. conn := GAConnection new. connectionSpec := GAConnectionArgs                      hostname: 'localhost'                      portno: 5432                      databaseName: 'sodbxtest'                      userName: 'sodbxtest'                      password: 'sodbxtest'. conn connectionArgs: connectionSpec. "Connect to the server" result := conn startup. (result errorResponse isKindOf: GAErrorResponse) ifTrue: [ self halt ]. "Execute your SQL stuff" result := conn execute: sql. (result errorResponse isKindOf: GAErrorResponse) ifTrue: [ self halt ] ifFalse: [result inspect]. "Disconnect from the server" conn close.  ----------------- Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero". (A. Einstein) From: Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> To: Benoit St-Jean <bstjean@yahoo.com>; Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 5:24 PM Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] PostgreSQL and Pharo 6 Following the instructions here http://guillep.github.io/DBXTalk/garage/installation.html I did Gofer it smalltalkhubUser: 'DBXTalk' project: 'Garage'; configurationOf: 'Garage'; load. (ConfigurationOfGarage project version: '0.5') load: 'postgresV2'. And it did install On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 at 00:02, Benoit St-Jean <bstjean@yahoo.com> wrote: Tell me which exact package you loaded (or even better, the exact to load it) and I will test some code against my PostgreSQL server...  ----------------- Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero". (A. Einstein) From: Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> To: Benoit St-Jean <bstjean@yahoo.com>; Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 4:55 PM Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] PostgreSQL and Pharo 6 no conn connect does not work because GAConnection has no such method. #connect exist in GAPostgresDrive but even if I go that route I get error #OptionAt:IfAbsent: was sent to nil . With this code conn2 := GAPostgresDriver new .conn2 host: 'ec2-**-***-***-185.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com' port: '****'database:'*******'  user: '*****'  password:''***'.conn2 connect. Is there sample code that connects to online databases ? On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:18 PM Benoit St-Jean <bstjean@yahoo.com> wrote: You have to #connect before executing SQL statements! Something like (in your code): conn connect. ----------------- Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero". (A. Einstein) From: Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> To: Benoit St-Jean <bstjean@yahoo.com>; Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] PostgreSQL and Pharo 6 Installing from Catalog Browser fails I installed it via the the website instructions, it installs fine But if I use it this way conn := GAConnection new. ca := GAConnectionArgs hostname: 'ec2-**-***-***-185.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com' portno: '****'databaseName:'*******'  userName: '*****'  password:''***'. conn connectionArgs: ca. conn execute: 'select * from search_terms'. it fails with no connection, is there anything else i need to do ?is there a guide for how to use this ? On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 7:30 PM Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote: thank you Benoit On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:23 AM Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote: ODBC worked fine as well if you don't need native driver access ----------------- Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero". (A. Einstein) From: Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2017 4:37 AM Subject: [Pharo-users] PostgreSQL and Pharo 6 Hey guys , I play with PostgreSQL and I really like it, sorry Esteban :D I am using Python for it but I would like to give access also to Pharo to my database. I was informed that Garage has a driver for PostgreSQL , is there any other candidate ? Any advice ?Â