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From: "Byron Nikolaidis" <byron.nikolaidis@home.com>
To: "Kovacs Zoltan Sandor" <tip@pc10.radnoti-szeged.sulinet.hu>,
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Subject: Re: new maintainer for the ODBC driver?
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Whoever does do it, should have access to the Windows/Microsoft side of
things -- not just Visual C++/Studio so he/she can compile an executable
version of the driver,  but also the applications, such as Access 2000,
Borland <insert product here>, etc.    Since my old computer is gone, I
currently have none of the applications I need to do the job any longer. :(

It is very important that most of the applications people are using these
days with the driver be available to the person maintaining the driver so
that all the crazy odbc behaviors can be tested. I know I would rather not
have to go out and buy an application software package just to test it with
the odbc driver ( BTW,  I did this in the past with Borland c++ builder).

Also, it seems rather difficult to be maintaining a version that works well
with Unix and also works with Windows.

Any thoughts?

Byron

----- Original Message -----
From: Kovacs Zoltan Sandor <tip@pc10.radnoti-szeged.sulinet.hu>
To: <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Cc: <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>; <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 7:16 AM
Subject: [INTERFACES] new maintainer for the ODBC driver?


> > know about). Now that Byron is unable (I assume not unwilling) to
> > contribute as he did, I think we need someone to take over
> > responsibility or at least get heavily involved as soon as possible.
> >
> > I would volunteer myself, but my C is isn't really up to it and pgAdmin
> > takes a fair bit of time... Anyone else?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dave.
> The ODBC driver still seems to be an important part of PostgreSQL. So I
> really support your idea. Unfortunately I really have no time for this and
> I'm rather new to the driver and Postgres internal communication. AFAIK
> Thomas Lockhart offered his work in May but I don't think he had enough
> time to check what happened on the list since then.
>
> Regards, Zoltan
>