Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62BDC2E2DBE; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:38:21 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58560-05; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:38:12 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9F62E2D99; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:38:13 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0459C11FE728; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:38:13 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00201-09; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:37:57 -0400 (AST) Received: from fserv.hub.org (blk-7-245-234.eastlink.ca [71.7.245.234]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5203F11FE725; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:38:07 -0400 (AST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (unknown [192.168.1.2]) by fserv.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F74036717; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:38:07 -0400 (AST) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:37:21 -0400 From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Joshua D. Drake" , Magnus Hagander cc: Dave Page , pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: change to interfaces.html Message-ID: <44691962FD70C21215BA5001@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <473DBF28.2080903@commandprompt.com> References: <20071115105151.79ff8061@scratch> <473C9D0A.1090409@hagander.net> <20071115112738.60c3a837@scratch> <9B276A8E7D64C7A3E5CFD1ED@ganymede.hub.org> <473D5A2A.9070904@postgresql.org> <473D6006.7080504@postgresql.org> <473DB9E9.3000006@commandprompt.com> <473DBC91.3000409@hagander.net> <473DBF28.2080903@commandprompt.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200711/302 X-Sequence-Number: 13080 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Friday, November 16, 2007 08:02:48 -0800 "Joshua D. Drake" wrote: >> more peoples requirements. ODBCng doesn't support advanced >> authentication methods. > > That is correct, we only support the ones most people use. 'k, now you are losing me on the argument ... >> It doesn't support versions < 8.0. Last I > > That is also correct but I hardly consider whether or not we support ungodly > old versions of PostgreSQL relevant. ... as does this one, considering we officially support v7.3 and newer, the ODBC driver we push should reflect that ... > Just because a company does the primary development that does not mean it is > not community code. Command Prompt is "core" on the ODBCng project. Nothing > more. These arguments I do agree with ... maybe some sort of 'feature matrix' is needed where we're dealing with multiple versions ... have an ODBC.html page and allow other 'versions' of ODBC include their products, commercial and open source ... 'k, let me ask though ... why would i use ODBCng over pgODBC? From your own words, the code is a mess (just like pgODBC), it doesn't support advanced auth methods (which ones aren't supported?) and doesn't support older versions of Pg (I have several clients still using 7.2, actually, for older OpenACS sites, and *alot* using 7.4) ... - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHPdVR4QvfyHIvDvMRAvjnAKCAKiXN81SLRPlGEEsGQ2uXelnY1ACffLkm XPDfQu0vO9iTKxMPq0GHYKY= =3wH2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----