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From: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgreSQL.org>
To: David C Hartwig Jr <daybee@bellatlantic.net>
Cc: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgreSQL.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Access problems
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:03:55 +0100
Message-ID: <19991221120355.A1306@fam-meskes.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <385E874F.C8398C52@bellatlantic.net>
References: <19991220152353.A585@fam-meskes.de>
	<385E874F.C8398C52@bellatlantic.net>

On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 02:45:19PM -0500, David C Hartwig Jr wrote:
> I am a bit rusty on the internals on the psqlODBC driver as it relates to MS
> Access.  But as I seem to recall, Access cannot have a key column over 256
> bytes.   Text columns are virtually unbounded.    This may explain some of your
> tables linking problems.   If you can, try changing some of those primary key
> fields to varchar(255) or smaller.

I did and now it works without a problem.

Thanks a lot.

> Ultimately what you  need to do is activate the logging feature in the driver
> and attach a minimalist failure log file.

I did but did not find much of an explanation. But then maybe I didn't check
closely enough.

Michael
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