Received: from mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta04.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.84]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4D7LMA13801 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 03:21:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from justin@postgresql.org) Received: from postgresql.org ([63.34.220.61]) by mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20010513072115.JDLX355.mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au@postgresql.org>; Sun, 13 May 2001 17:21:15 +1000 Message-ID: <3AFE34A3.EC56557A@postgresql.org> Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 17:15:47 +1000 From: Justin Clift X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nt@atleastitisnotwindows.com CC: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Re: how to I connect ODBC to PostgreSQL in NT? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200105/63 X-Sequence-Number: 746 Hi, There are also : http://odbc.postgresql.org http://techdocs.postgresql.org/oresources.php#odbc http://www.greatbridge.org/project/psqlodbcplus/projdisplay.php http://www.unixodbc.org/ Hope this is helpful. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift nt@atleastitisnotwindows.com wrote: > > On Sat, 12 May 2001 22:18:52 GMT, nt@atleastitisnotwindows.com wrote: > > >I read ll the documentation I can find in the PostgreSQL 7.1.1 > >download and searched the web a dozen different ways but have not > >found the magic page that says how to install PostgreSQL ODBC in NT. > >Is there a page I am missing? > > > >There are lots of pages saying > >"I installed PostgreSQL ODBC and have this problem..." > >They typically refer to an old PostgreSQL or an independent ODBC > >driver. > > > >There is a psqlodbc.dll in one directory but not one line about what > >to run to be able to use it in ODBC. MySQL installed their ODBC > >driver automatically with the Win32 binary. PostgreSQL documentation > >has a lot of hints that ODBC is available but not a line that says > >"run this" or "copy that". > > > Found it. I had to download an old ODBC to get the magic page. > > Copy psqlodbc.dll to c:/winnt/system32 > Find and run psqlodbc.reg (somewhere in distribution directories) > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi