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Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:04:44 -0400
From: Byron Nikolaidis <byronn@solipsys.com>
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To: Peter Harvey <pharvey@codebydesign.com>
CC: pgsql-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] ODBC
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Peter Harvey wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am the coordinator and lead developer of the unixODBC Project (
> http://www.genix.net/unixODBC ). I visited here a few months ago with
> the intention of getting the PostgreSQL ODBC driver to work in unixODBC.
> I passed the effort on but it seems that it is not getting done so I am
> back again with the intention of doing it over the next day or two.
>
> I expect the changes to be minimal but they may affect a number fo files
> so I would like to get cvs read/write access to the source instead of
> doing diffs or whatever. NOTE: I do not plan on making any changes
> affecting MS Windows users.
>
> If this does not seem like a good idea to the people here then I will
> start a code fork... a UNIX specific version of the driver.
>
> Please advise...
>

I say go for it!  Since the driver was successfully modified to work with
both MS and IODBC, then it seems to me you shouldn't have to make a code
fork for this either.

Byron