Re: int8 vs text in odbc link

Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> writes:
> Unfortunately, all of the columns of the data
> type int8 are interpreted as text in MS Access 97 when
> you look at the design view of the table.

Offhand it looks like our ODBC driver will report the type of an int8
field as "SQL_BIGINT" (-5), which may or may not be a standard ODBC
type code --- and even if it is, Access might not know it.  Anybody
know?

            regards, tom lane