From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200311070403.hA743nd08726@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: ODBC Driver
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To: "Goertz, Dave PSC" <dgoertz@psc.gov.sk.ca>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 23:03:49 -0500 (EST)
Cc: PostgreSQL-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
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I got this report from a user.  Anyone?

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Goertz, Dave PSC wrote:
> We have been using the old driver (ver. 07_01_0004) and its seems fine
> except for when doing left outer joins from Access.  The log shows that
> characters like '{' are being placed into the code being given to the back
> end.
> We tried the newer one (ver. 07_03_0100) in the summer and found that it
> caused other problems so we stayed with the old one.
> Now we were trying the newest one (ver. 07_03_0200) and it seems to fix the
> left outer join problem but breaks other things.
> In particular we use a language called SAS to talk to PostgreSQL and
> everything works except for certain comparisons.
> 
> Ex:   If REG_PY NE 0;
> 
> The old driver passes some 39,000 records through this statement but the new
> one passes 1900.
> 
> Are data types being screwed up.  REG_PY should just be a numeric datatype.

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