On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 19:06 +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 13:30 +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> >> Hi all
> >>
> >> I remember, a while ago somebody mentioning an odbc driver for postgres
> >> that is not dependant on a working postgres client installation.
> >> Unfortunately I lost the link to it, can anybody remember?
> >>
> >
> > ODBCng?
> >
> > http://projects.commandprompt.com/public/odbcng
>
> Yes, thanks, thats the one. Already up and running!
>
> Sadly, the current svn versions seem to target only windows. No chance
> to even compile it under linux, but the old version from 2007 works.
The linux version lags behind. We are working on a unixodbc issue with
newer versions then you will be able to.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Bye
> Tim
>
>
>
>
> >
> >> (
> >> I tested it then and it worked fine for simple task, but then switched
> >> back to the standard driver, as the datatype information stuff was much
> >> more complete.
> >>
> >> Now I need to run a postgresql odbc program on a few ancient machines
> >> whith completely outdated client libraries and no chance of upgrading.
> >> So, the standalone driver would come very handy here again.
> >> )
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Bye
> >> Tim
> >>
>
>
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