Received: from sultan.intranet.org (root@ppp-106-55.infonie.fr [195.242.106.55]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA09486; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:54:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from advl@advl.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by sultan.intranet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA00799; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:06:44 +0100 From: Emmanuel DISCORS Organization: ADVL To: Dave White , Jesse Scott , , pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres on MacOS... Is it even a possibility? Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 14:59:30 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00030315064401.00428@sultan> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.org id IAA09573 Hi to All, Maybe a stupid question ; but using postgresql odbc client on Win OS computer I don't know how to do the same thing on a MAC OS client. QUESTIONS : How to connect postgresql server (running under Linux) from MAC OS via ODBC ? If possible free solutions are available ? Many thanks. Emmanuel -- ================ Emmanuel DISCORS Tel & Fax : 02 54 56 80 61 ================ Conception, Informatique, Réseau ADVL ( Au-Delà de Vos Limites ) Site web : http://www.advl.org/ Le jeu, 02 mar 2000, Dave White a écrit : > Jesse Scott wrote: > > > I was wondering if anyone has thought about MacOS support. Is it even > > possible? Is there some great impediment to porting or is it just that > > there is not enough need to justify the effort? > > If you mean for client access then the libpq library should be a > possibility, I've had a look at it and started the port but ran out of time. > (I spent a day on it...) It doesn't, on the face of it, look like a HUGE job > as all the comms calls go through a handful of routines. I intend to port it > over sometime in the next few months as part of a large project I am working > on. Of course, if anyone else has already done it... > > The server itself is another story... I doubt that it would be practical or > desirable to run the server on Mac OS unless it is running on Mac OS X in > which case porting it across should be straight forward. > > regards > Dave White > > > //////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ > Dave White > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////// > > > > ************