From: Julia A.Case <julie@hub.org>
To: Byron Nikolaidis <byronn@insightdist.com>
To: Karl Bolingbroke <karl.bolingbroke@flyingj.com>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: PostgreSQL ODBC
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:04:31 +0000
Message-ID: <19980422100431.15640@MageNet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <353DF415.53373CAE@insightdist.com>
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Quoting Byron Nikolaidis (byronn@insightdist.com):
> I am working, on my own time, on a port of the new odbc driver to 16 bit. But
> this might take some time. I am currently just trying to get the driver to
> compile and link. Once that is done, there is the issue of memory usage. The new
> driver uses malloc for data structures and simply returns the pointer as an
> environment, connection, or statement handle. This is fine for win32 but would
> probably break miserably on win16. Malloc() is not supposed to be used at all
> under Win3.1 according to Microsoft. But even the old driver, made quite liberal
> use of malloc() in the 16 bit version. That might explain some crashes!
>
Bryon,
How can I help witht his development?
> I'm not sure about how I am going to test it since I don't have access to any
> Windows 3.1 machines or applications for that matter.
>
> If anyone has any ideas on testing scenarios, I would love to hear them. Can you
> test a 16 bit driver properly on windows 95? If so, what applications can you
> use?
>
> Or if anyone wants to volunteer to test an experimental 16 bit driver, that might
> help too.
>
I will be able to test the 16 bit driver.
> Also, there is the matter of the 16 bit install. The new driver needs to create
> some new keys (in the INI files) that the old one didn't. Anybody know anything
> about upgrading the 16 bit install program?
>
The install issues are going to be fun. I still have the source
for the old install. That could be updated. The ODBC support files will
need to be updated though.
Julie
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