Re: How to enable ODBC?

Hi,

I read that it is either neccessary to supply the --enable-odbc option to
the configure script or you can compile that later on by changing into
src/interfaces/odbc and do make and make install there. But I don't even
have this directory. But that is chapter 7 of the 7.2 documentation.

I found some more information, but that was for pgsql 6.x!!

1) You have a working Pgsql installation
    - done
2) You have modified pg_hba.conf to allow connections from hosts other than
the server itself
 - done
3) You have started pgsql with the i flag

    - I tried ./10.pgsql.sh start -i, but that did not help

4) You have created a sandbox database you have create table rights to.

    - What is a sandbox db?
    - I have granted full access to all dbs I have created.



I installed unixODBC, but I couldn't find the software afterwoods! So, I
don't know how to set up a DSN, just because I don't know how to start the
unixODBC-manager. The unixODBC documentation did not help a bit. I had the
hope whether it is possible to connect locally via odbc.



Benjamin


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> Subject: Re: [NOVICE] How to enable ODBC?
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> Benjamin......
>
> > Before that I added via webmin-web-interface
> > "192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0/All databases/All users/No authentication
> > required" to the allowed hosts.
>
> > I tried to connect via MS-Access, but it failed:
>
> In addition to allowing hosts, etc, I think pgsqld must be started with a
> command line switch to allow tcp connections.  I'm not sure of it exactly,
> since I'm only running web server connections, but I think you are real
> close to getting it working.  You have to add it in inet.d, or however
> you're distribution starts on boot up.
>
> Sorry I'm not more specific, but I bet you almost have it... just one more
> step.
>
> brew
>
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