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To: "pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org" <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: ODBC 16 bit support 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Apr 1998 13:20:29 -0300."
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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:32:25 +0930
From: Stephen Davies <scldad@sdc.com.au>

> On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Julia A.Case wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Stephen Davies (scldad@sdc.com.au):
> > > Not a good example I think. The 16/32-bit ODBC question says nothing about 
> > > dropping features. As I said above, ODBC is ODBC: you either conform or you 
> > > don't. If there happen to be differences between the levels of conformance or 
> > > of performance between 16 and 32-bit models, that would be a pity but not 
> > > earth shattering.
> > > 
> > 	But there should be one code tree...  With some #ifdef's not 2
> > seperate code tree's.  I think this is the point everyone is making.
> 
> 	Its kinda sad when a piece of software as small as the ODBC driver
> can't deal with two different OSs (16bit vs 32bit Windows), while
> PostgreSQL itself, substantially larger, can currently handle *how* many
> totally disparate operating systems, from totally different vendors??
> 
That is very commendable but, while not trivial, the differences between 
flavours of UNIX are nothing compared with the differences between W16 and W32.

I have ported some pretty major codes between UNIXes (eg gated) and I have 
also ported a number of apps from W16 to W32. 

I definitely prefer doing the former.

Despite the fact that we are looking for solutions to the same need and 
conformance to the same spec, I cannot see anything wrong with having two 
"products" to achieve that.

Cheers,
Stephen.


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