From: "Joel Burton" <jburton@scw.org>
Organization: Support Center of Washington
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-admin-request@postgresql.org
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:15:21 -0800
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Subject: Re: v7.1 beta 1 (ODBC driver?)
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The official ODBC driver from pg7.0.x doesn't work w/7.1 (b/c of the 
changes in the system catalogs, IIRC).

The CVS 7.1devel code works and builds easily, but  I suspect 99% 
of the beta testers won't have Visual C++ or won't be able to 
compile the driver. Is there an official driver-compiler-person that 
could package this up for 7.1beta?

(I know that a binary driver isn't part of the beta per se, and that 
it's not *unreleasable* to think that everyone could compile their 
own, but I bought VC++ just to compile this driver, and would hate 
to see M$ get richer for even more people. Also, I doubt we'd want 
to impugn the perceived quality of 7.1beta b/c people don't 
understand that its just the ODBC drivers that out-of-date.)
 
If there's no one official tasked w/this, I'd be happy to submit my 
compiled version, at http://www.scw.org/pgaccess.


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