Re: Patch for ODBC driver (look for odbc.ini in more than

Ross Thomas wrote:
> > It looks like we already have this capability in 7.2:
> >
> > /*
> >  * theIniFileName is searched for in:
> >  *  $HOME/theIniFileName
> >  *  theIniFileName
> >  *  ODBCINSTDIR/ODBCINST_INI
> >  */
>
> Unless I'm missing something, this still doesn't match what "most" ODBC
> drivers do - for example, it doesn't look in /etc (or other
> ./configure-defined location) for a system-wide file, or in $ODBCINI. This
> can be annoying for a sysadmin wishing to provide a predefined set of data
> sources.
>
> Someone mentioned that 7.2 can use an iODBC library to read odbc.ini, which
> is an improvement, but IMHO PostgreSQL's driver should be more flexible by
> default, without having to link with a library. (This would also be useful
> as far as binary packages go, as there needn't be a different PostgreSQL
> driver package for each driver manager.)

Agreed.  Can you supply a patch against current source so we can release
it with 7.3?

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