From: David Hartwig <daybee@bellatlantic.net>
To: Gilley, Charles H. <Charles.Gilley@glenayre.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Postgresql vs. Access97, TransferDatabase
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:01:56 -0500
Message-ID: <365C8C63.AB3456BD@bellatlantic.net> (raw)
References: <18D7589E9C44D21199AC00805F31B04708A089@atlanta_nt2.atlanta.glenayre.com>
"Gilley, Charles H." wrote:
> I'm trying to move an existing access database to Postgres.
> I've tried cut/paste, export/import, all without success. Trying the
> transfer database approach, I receive the following error:
>
> Error creating the table; ERROR type name lookup of lo failed (#17).
>
> >From the odbc log file, Access is trying to create a series of fields that
> I do not know where they are coming from:
>
> ..."Gen_Note" int4,"s_Generation" int4,"s_GUID" bytea,"s_Lineage" lo,...
>
> Maybe someone has dealt with this issue before.
It looks like you have an OLE column (large object) in your table. Follow the
instruction contained in our FAQ for creating the "lo" data type on the server
side: http://www.insightdist.com/psqlodbc
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