Quick question: Why aren't you using the .NET data provider?
If you're set on using ODBC, try using the Microsoft data link properties:
1. Create a file, call it postgresql.udl (make sure its NOT postgresql.udl.txt)
2. Double click on it.
3. Set your connection options.
4. Click OK.
5. Open with Notepad. There you'll find a connection string.
HTH
--- Gary Doades <gpd@gpdnet.co.uk> wrote:
> I seem to have a problem forming a suitable connect string for the PostgreSQL
> ODBC
> driver. I am using Windows XP and visual studio.net 2003 with C#.
>
> If I have a connection string as:
>
> string strConnect = "DSN=PostgreSQL30;UID=postgres;SERVER=192.168.1.102;
> Port=5432;";
>
> And I have defined the database to connec to in the DSN then everything works
> fine.
> What I want to do however is not have to define a DSN for every database that
> I have or
> when new ones are created. Normally (with MS SQLServer etc.) I would specify
> the
> driver name and database in the connection string itself. So I use:
>
> string strConnect = "DRIVER={PostgreSQL};UID=postgres;SERVER=192.168.1.102;
> Port=5432; Database=webroster";
>
> I get an exception (OdbcException) thrown in C# that has NO error information
> at all in it
> and the connection fails.
>
> I get this same problem if I specify the DSN but the DSN definition itself
> does not specify
> a database. Am I using the right keywords in the connection string? I have
> tried to look
> around for definitions of the keywords that the ODBC driver accepts, but I
> can only find
> various examples like the one I am using.
>
> If I specify a DSN in the connect string and the DSN specifies a database
> then the
> connection and all other functions work just fine. Any ODBC exceptions thrown
> at any
> other point in my code have all the correct error information in them.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Gary.
>
>
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