From: "Joel Burton" <jburton@scw.org>
Organization: Support Center of Washington
To: "Neil Davis" <npdavis@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:00:30 -0500
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL ODBC driver: recordset not updatable
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On 4 Dec 2000, at 15:18, Neil Davis wrote:

> ODBC drivers on Micro$oft windows, typically do not support update,
> delete or insert (db modification) through them when used against
> non-microsoft databases. Part of the price you pay for ODBC. You will
> have to write server side functions and execute them through the odbc
> connections like:

In MS Access, you can update, delete, insert, either by (a) direct 
linked tables, or (b) ODBCDirect. You can't when using "Pass-
through queries".

In VB, when I simply bind a data object to a PG recordset, that's 
updatable too.

You might want to look into your problem; I don't know exactly 
what you've been trying w/ODBC + PG, but, in at least several 
areas, I've been able to update recordsets w/o problem and w/o 
parameterized queries.

http://www.scw.org/pgaccess may have some helpful info. It's 
mostly Access-focused, but has general info about ODBC + PG.

Good luck!

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Joel Burton, Director of Information Systems -*- jburton@scw.org
Support Center of Washington (www.scw.org)