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From: "George Henry C. Daswani" <gdaswani@odc.net>
To: <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] hacked unixodbc driver..
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 22:17:43 -0700
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It would be great to make diff files and give it to the postgresql
maintainers but at this
point, I really wouldn't want this driver to be used and entered into the
cvs without testing..
It works great for me, and let's me run the exact same php and perl dbd-odbc
code on
windows / linux / and solaris..  Steve Harvey is working on his excellent
unixODBC package
and I believe it's great, in the meantime it doesn't work too well with
solaris and when the time comes that it works - it would be nice that it
get's incorporated into the postgresql source tree..
At this time, the driver hack works okay for me, and doesn't stop me from
using postgresql with odbc - when the time comes that unixodbc works on
solaris, i'll be a happy camper.  In the meantime, I surely won't lodbc, and
dbd-odbc.  I'm pretty sure there's other people out there who would like the
same..  I'd rather not use dbd-pg or php-pg because I also use the exact
same code on an informix database using openlink odbc..et a broken
GetPrivateProfileString parser from the current postgresql snapshot stop me
from using php-

George Daswani..


>
> is that nobody who hack the ODBC driver know how to make
> diffs files ?
>
> This is getting annoying, first the guy (from UnixODBC, I think)
> who introduces itself on this list saying:
>
> "Hey, I want write cvs access on the tree or I will make
> a fork of the odbc driver ..."
>
> without even asking who is the driver mantainer, etc ...
> very, very polite ...
>
> Now, there is Daswani, who say (more or less):
>
> "I've hacked the odbc driver, you want the changes ?,
> download this..." (the whole driver)
>
> Please, people, this is not how the Open Source work, there
> must be a _little_ more cooperation, if anybody will make their
> own with the driver, things will go crazy, really crazy.
>
> Just a:
>
>  "Hi, I've hacked the driver, the changes are ..., here is
>  the patch."
>
> would be excellent.
>
> btw, I would like to see Byron (the current maintainer) to say
> something about their situation with respect to the driver
> (last time he was a little complicated with their personal
> situation, hope he is better now).
>
> Sergio
>