Received: from iconmail.bellatlantic.net (iconmail.bellatlantic.net [199.173.162.30]) by hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA13568 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:02:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from daybee@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-196-125-163.bellatlantic.net [151.196.125.163]) by iconmail.bellatlantic.net (IConNet Sendmail) with ESMTP id SAA27181; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:00:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <365C8C63.AB3456BD@bellatlantic.net> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:01:56 -0500 From: David Hartwig Organization: Home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gilley, Charles H." CC: pgsql-interfaces Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Postgresql vs. Access97, TransferDatabase References: <18D7589E9C44D21199AC00805F31B04708A089@atlanta_nt2.atlanta.glenayre.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "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