Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Uefo7-0005gv-Vx for pgsql-general@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 06:12:24 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Uefo7-0006XW-2G for pgsql-general@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 06:12:23 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:7903:4::125]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Uefo5-0006W3-7Z for pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 06:12:21 +0000 Received: from hogranch.com ([75.101.82.47]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Uefo1-00012Q-8A for pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 06:12:20 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (porker [192.168.0.2]) by hogranch.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id r4L6CBl20300 for ; Mon, 20 May 2013 23:12:11 -0700 Message-ID: <519B103A.4070600@hogranch.com> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 23:12:10 -0700 From: John R Pierce User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: ODBC constructs References: <519B0C04.8070102@hogranch.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HawgScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-HawgScanner: Found to be clean X-Pg-Spam-Score: -0.3 (/) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-general Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org On 5/20/2013 11:04 PM, Atri Sharma wrote: > Also,is it only me,or are we all a bit wary of ODBC? its clumsy. getting software working well with it requires more work. its promise of portability only holds true if you restrict yourself to SQL that works the same on different servers, and if you do that, odds are you'll be optimal on none of them. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general