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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:46:05 +0000
From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Organization: Caltech/JPL
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To: scampbell@lear.com, "Cary O'Brien" <cobrien@access.digex.net>,
	Byron Nikolaidis <byronn@insightdist.com>
CC: Postgres Interfaces Mailing List <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Standalone driver for Unix
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scampbell@lear.com wrote:
> 
> I had one other interesting thing with the Postgresql ODBC driver.  
  I don't know much of the internal's of ODBC but here's what I'm 
  wondering...
> 
> When I use an extended datatype (let's say one for ipaddress for 
  instance) and then use MS Access to open the table via ODBC it 
  complains that the 'ipaddress' is an unknown type.  I have clicked a 
  box in creation of the ODBC ini file (or the .DSN file actually in the 
  case of MS) that says (something similar to) 'Treat unknown datatypes 
  as LongVarChar' but it seems to have no effect turned on or off.  Does 
  our drive not support this?  Is MS just show it normal 'excellence in 
  programming'?  Any ideas?
> 
> (Feel free to cross post this if the you think the question/answer 
  might be of interest to others).

I have no idea. But others are likely to. Usually best to hit the lists
directly to get a better mix of ideas early on.

Someone else?

                   - Tom